Publications by authors named "Anders Beich"
A Saga-In-Progress: Challenges and Milestones on Our Way Toward the .
Front Med (Lausanne)
November 2021
Late in 2020, the Nordic Colleges of General Practice published a joint statement specifying what General Practitioners stand for and intend to act upon, our . In this article, the authors describe and analyze challenges and milestones encountered on our 50-year journey toward the creation of that document. The shaping of Family Medicine/General Practice as an academic discipline began in the 1960's.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: Recommendations for routine alcohol screening and brief counselling intervention in primary health care rest on results from intervention efficacy studies. By conducting a pragmatic controlled trial (PCT), we aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of the WHO recommendations for screening and brief intervention (SBI) in general practice.
Methods: A randomized PCT (brief counselling intervention vs no intervention) involving 39 Danish general practitioners (GPs).
Objective: To determine the effectiveness of programmes of screening in general practice for excessive alcohol use and providing brief interventions.
Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials that used screening as a precursor to brief intervention.
Setting: General practice.
Objective: To explore the suitability of a screening based intervention for excessive alcohol use by describing the experiences of general practitioners who tried such an intervention in their everyday practice.
Design: Qualitative interviews with general practitioners who had participated in a pragmatic study of a combined programme of screening and a brief intervention for excessive alcohol use. Doctors were interviewed either individually or in focus groups.