Family practice
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The aim of the present study was to estimate physician job satisfaction at the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), the Ministry of Health (SSA) and in the private sector, and to measure the association between these different family medical care organization models. ⋯ The organization model is associated with dissatisfaction in all areas, except in 'the patients'.
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The aim of the present study was to obtain views from general practices about current and potential improvements to services for patients with suspected lung, large bowel, non-melanoma skin and breast cancer. ⋯ Communication problems between primary and secondary sectors need to be tackled innovatively and the perceived quality variation in services addressed-perhaps by developing local guidelines. Practices would welcome further education about health promotion resources and cancer epidemiology.
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Research evidence suggests that patients' beliefs about medicines influence medicine taking. Therefore, it is important that GPs are able to both identify and take account of such beliefs in the consultation. ⋯ Developing 'common ground' in the consultation will be problematic if GPs are not aware of, and sympathetic towards, the ways in which patients use information from a range of sources to formulate beliefs that then affect their medicine-taking behaviour. GPs should be encouraged to open up their discussions with patients so as to encourage the development of a partnership in which each party is aware of, and respects, the other's point of view.