Co-locating frailty intervention activities and general practice: exploring the experiences and perceptions of participants and delivery partners
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@jenniferliddle.bsky.social @barbarahanratty.bsky.social
Protocol: general practice workload is rising, with limited evidence on individual clinician workload and its relation to local demographics. The Hidden Workload Study uses mixed-methods and real-time data to explore this nationwide
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Delivering a primary care review for people prescribed opioids for persistent pain: what are the facilitators and barriers identified by primary care pharmacists in reviewing patients and, if appropriate, supporting opioid tapering?
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@drcwoodcock.bsky.social
How suitable and accurate are eating disorder screening tools for Binge Eating Disorder and Bulimia Nervosa in a primary care setting? This systematic review and narrative summary found both feasibility and accuracy concerns
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@kozmer-stella.bsky.social
This qualitative study highlights potential facilitators of or barriers to implementation of the PHQ-9 in monitoring depression in primary care in the UK
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Assessing the economic and equity impacts of complex primary care interventions for disadvantaged groups - a simplified distributional cost-effectiveness analysis in England
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In children, ear infections are one of the most common reasons for antibiotic use. This survey provides insights into the actions, beliefs and expectations of parents when their child had a suspected ear infection
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A fantastic opening to the BJGP Research and Publishing Conference 2026, with a keynote from Prof Martin Marshall on the intersection of practice and politics — how good is general practice at influencing policymakers?
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🎉 Congratulations to our Top 10 authors!
Read the Special Editorial discussing each article of the ⭐️BJGP Open Top Ten 2025⭐️
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Explore the full Top 10 here: bjgpopen.org/page/to...
⭐No 1 Most Read Research Article 2025⭐Prescribing practices for proton pump inhibitors among primary care physicians in England: an evaluation, Plehhova et al
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⭐No 2 Most Read Research Article 2025⭐Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) use in general practice for the early detection of cognitive impairment: a feasibility study, Carton et al
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⭐No 3 Most Read Research Article 2025⭐Do marked discharge summaries with recommendation text boxes enhance patient safety? A nationwide survey
Mikkelsen et al
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@cviolan.bsky.social
@georgette-eaton.bsky.social @oxprimarycare.bsky.social
@britishlivertrust.bsky.social
⭐No 4 Most Read Research Article 2025⭐Prevalence and severity of anxiety, stress, and depression among adults with long COVID in Barcelona: a cross-sectional study, León-Gómez et al
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⭐No 5 Most Read Research Article 2025⭐Increasing engagement with liver disease management across the UK: a follow-up cross-sectional survey, Jarvis et al
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⭐No 6 Most Read Research Article 2025⭐The impact of paramedics working in primary care teams on other professionals and patient experiences: a qualitative study, Eaton et al
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⭐No 7 Most Read Research Article 2025⭐Lyme disease in UK primary care: a knowledge, attitude, and practice survey, Delaney et al
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⭐No 8 Most Read Research Article 2025⭐Sex differences in the prescription of antihypertensive medications in primary care patients: an observational study
Dal Canto et al
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⭐No 9 Most Read Research Article 2025⭐Utilisation and consequences of CRP point-of-care-testing in primary care practices: a real-world multicentre observational study with 1740 patient cases in Germany, by Markwart et al
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⭐No 10 Most Read Research Article 2025⭐ Efficacy of orlistat in type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis, by Ghosal et al
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We are just one week away from the BJGP Research and Publishing Conference 2026 in Bristol!
Find out more and book your place: royalcollegeofgeneralpractitioners.my.site.com/event/a2kWS0...
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⭐️The BJGP Open Top 10 Most Read Research Articles 2025⭐️ countdown starts on Monday 16th, with No 1 announced on Thursday 19th March!
Stay tuned for a special editorial on the Top 10, written by Associate Editor Dr Alex Burrell & Editor-in-Chief Dr Hajira Dambha-Miller, publishing on Thursday
How to encourage more medical graduates to choose general practice? This virtual workshop study explored stakeholder views on ways to strengthen integration of pathways into general practice across the medical education and training pipeline
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This mixed methods study explores concerns that patients and staff in English general practices share about making appointments to see doctors and other professionals, including the difficult job receptionists face in managing patients’ requests
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Clinical empathy may enhance patient satisfaction and outcomes, but the interaction between it and ethnicity is underexplored. This web-based experiment using film vignettes explored how people from different ethnicities perceived GPs' communication of clinical empathy
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This mixed methods study explores concerns that patients and staff in English general practices share about making appointments to see doctors and other professionals, including the difficult job receptionists face in managing patients’ requests
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This retrospective cohort study is the first to explore on a population level the impact of multiple long-term conditions on use of unscheduled care in the last year of life. It also adds describes the decedent population, with and without multiple long term conditions
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