Table of contents (09/2014 - selection)

DEGAM-News

Editorial

Miscellaneous

Special Article

• Gut Feeling: First the Belly, then the Stomach: Phenomenological Thinking in Medical Practice

  Summary: To find appropriate decisions in medical practice, doctors´ thinking can be deductive, inductive, but also abductive. The first approach solves a problem by...

  Harald Kamps, Dirk Harms

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• The Hitherto Failure of the Polypill in India and Elsewhere

  Summary: The Polypill concept, known for 10 years, has found no practical response despite great publication impact. This is also true for India, where authorization...

  Dieter Borgers

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Original Papers

• Eine methodische Annäherung

  Do Academic Family Practices Reflect Routine Primary Care?

  A Methodological ApproachBackground: Participation rates in family medicine research projects differ depending on the sampling method: rates of 40–60 % are described...

  Birgitta Weltermann, Stefan Gesenhues, Anika Thielmann

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• Eine Fokusgruppenanalyse

  Family Practitioners’ View of Research in Practice Based Research Networks

  A Focus Group AnalysisIntroduction: Practice Based Research Networks (PBRN) have proved internationally to be successful in primary care research. To improve research...

  Eva Hummers-Pradier, Johannes Hauswaldt, Jutta Bleidorn, Susanne Heim, Heidrun Lingner

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EBM

• Phimosis with Atheroma

  QuestionA mother presented her 7-year-old son, who has a narrowed but still just retractable penis foreskin and a flat sebaceus cyst at the base of the glans penis,...

  Simon Kostner

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