10 articles in this issue
Simon de Lusignan
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Josie Evans,Bruce Guthrie,Claudia Pagliari,Alex Greene,Andrew Morris,Scott Cunningham,Peter Donnan
Introduction Recent evaluations of IT innovations in primary care have highlighted variations between centres and practices in uptake and use. We evaluated whether structural characteristics of a general practice were associated with variations in use of ... see more
William Lester,Adrian Zai,Richard Grant,Henry Chueh
The gap between best practice and actual patient care continues to be a pervasive problem in our healthcare system. Efforts to improve on this knowledge_performance gap have included computerised disease management programs designed to improve guideline a... see more
Tom Christensen,Anders Grimsmo
Background Although primary care physicians are satisfied users of electronic patient records (EPRs) in Norway today, EPR systems may not have reached their full potential. We studied primary care physicians' needs and experiences in relation to EPRs and ... see more
Eva Toth-Pal,Inger Wårdh,Lars-Erik Strender,Gunnar Nilsson
Objectives To explore the influence of a guidelinebased computerised decision support system (CDSS) on general practitioners' (GPs') management of patient cases of chronic heart failure in a pragmatic clinical situation. We assessed changes in the GPs' co... see more
Annabel Wood,Helen Morris,Jon Emery,Per Hall,Symon Cotton,Toby Prevost,Fiona Walter
Background Pigmented skin lesions or 'moles' are a common presenting problem in general practice consultations: while the majority are benign, a minority are malignant melanomas. The MoleMateTM system is a novel diagnostic toolwhich incorporates spectroph... see more
Zsolt Nagykaldi,Chester Fox,Steve Gallo,Joseph Stone,Patricia Fontaine,Kevin Peterson,Theodoros Arvanitis
Access Grid (AG) is an Internet2-driven, high performance audio_visual conferencing technology used worldwide by academic and government organisations to enhance communication, human interaction and group collaboration. AG technology is particularly promi... see more
Brendan Delaney