Table of contents (5/2020 - selection)

• Efficacy of Short Interventions for Patients with Alcoholism in Primary Care

  Michael M. Kochen

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• Primary Hyperaldosteronism: the Most Frequent Underlying Condition for Secondary Hypertension

  Michael M. Kochen

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• Firearm Epidemic in the US

  Michael M. Kochen

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• NHS Antidepressant Prescribing: What do We Get for £266m a Year?

  Michael M. Kochen

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• Innovative Models for Securing Health Care in Rural Areas

  BackgroundSecuring health care in rural areas is becoming increasingly difficult. In the meantime, a variety of models and measures has been developed to ensure the...

  Anne Berghöfer, Carolin Auschra, Jana Deisner, Jörg Sydow

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• Innovative?

  Uwe Kurzke

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• The „Assessment of Burden of COPD (ABC) Tool“ in Family Medicine

  BackgroundMany people around the world suffer from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The Assessment of Burden of COPD (ABC) tool, which was originally...

  Stephanie Klosterhalfen, Christian Funke, Antonius Schneider, Daniel Kotz

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• Caring for COPD Patients in Germany – Problems of Individualized Treatment

  Thomas Hausen

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• Family Physician Shortage from the Perspective of the Media

  BackgroundFor some time now, the media have been reporting on the worsening shortage of family physicians (FPs) and the numerical decline of rural practices. In the...

  Julian Wangler, Michael Jansky

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• Practical Year Training in Outpatient Care: Which Subject Would Medical Students Choose?

  BackgroundIn order to take account of the high share of the outpatient sector in patient care also in teaching medical students, the Master Plan Medical Studies 2020...

  Inga Petruschke, Sven Schulz, Michelle Kaufmann, Miriam Hesse, Jutta Bleidorn

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• Antibody Assays Against SARS-CoV-2: Why a Good Test Does not Always Produce Proper Results

  SummaryAssays to test for antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 can display a high proportion of false-positive results if the frequency of the disease in the general...

  Hannes Blankenfeld, Eva Grill, Hanna Kaduszkiewicz, Josef Pömsl, Michael M. Kochen

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