BMC primary care

· 5 papers in corpus
2025
Community Women's Health Hub models in England: a mixed methods evaluation.
doi:10.1186/s12875-025-03037-z ·PMID:41402728

BackgroundWomen's sexual and reproductive health care in England is fragmented, with multiple providers, access inequalities, and commissioning barriers. In some areas health leaders, often based in primary care settings, have established '…

2025
Understanding the potential role of Social Prescribing Link Workers in supporting identified needs of people with physical and mental long-term conditions: a qualitative study.
doi:10.1186/s12875-025-02990-z ·PMID:41257566

BACKGROUND: The Social Prescribing Link Worker (SPLW) approach is a means for supporting individuals and communities with diverse needs, with its reach and impact widely recognised in health and community systems. However, SPLW support for …

2024
Care needs of patients with the post-COVID syndrome in Dutch general practice: an interview study among patients and general practitioners.
doi:10.1186/s12875-024-02597-w ·PMID:39342189

BackgroundThe post-COVID syndrome (PCS) has a large impact on an individual's daily life. The wide variety of symptoms in PCS patients and the fact that it is still relatively new makes it difficult for general practitioners (GPs) to recogn…

2024
Diagnosing and managing prescription opioid use disorder in patients prescribed opioids for chronic pain in Australian general practice settings: a qualitative study using the theory of Planned Behaviour.
doi:10.1186/s12875-024-02474-6 ·PMID:38961328

BackgroundChronic pain is a debilitating and common health issue. General Practitioners (GPs) often prescribe opioids to treat chronic pain, despite limited evidence of benefit and increasing evidence of harms, including prescription Opioid…

2023
Identifying populations with chronic pain in primary care: developing an algorithm and logic rules applied to coded primary care diagnostic and medication data.
doi:10.1186/s12875-023-02134-1 ·PMID:37691103

BackgroundEstimates of chronic pain prevalence using coded primary care data are likely to be substantially lower than estimates derived from community surveys. Most primary care studies have estimated chronic pain prevalence using data sea…