[Bibliometric analysis of International Scientific production on primary care].

Objective: To present an international view of the scientific production in the field of primary care in the period 1985-2004.

Design: Retrospective, observational study. Bibliometric analysis.

Control of diabetes and cardiovascular risk factors in patients with type 2 diabetes in primary care. The gap between guidelines and reality in Spain.

To evaluate the level and factors affecting control of diabetes and cardiovascular risk factors in type 2 diabetes (TYPE 2 DM) patients. Multicentre cross-sectional study: a sample of 430 primary care practices across Spain selected 1907 type 2 diabetic patients. The first five consecutive ambulatory patients with TYPE 2 DM were eligible for the inclusion into the survey.

The effect of written information on adherence to antibiotic treatment in acute sore throat.

A randomised clinical trial was conducted to establish whether written instructions, in addition to verbal ones, significantly improve adherence to antibiotic treatment for acute sore throat in comparison with verbal instructions only. Patients were selected by consecutive sampling at seven primary healthcare surgeries. The pill count average was 87.

[Quality of drug prescriptions by the Spanish internal medicine services].

Many registered drugs in different countries not always have been tested by clinical assays and their efficacy has no definitively proved. Good clinical practice must assume the prescription of the more efficacy drugs. The aim of this study is to evaluate the quality of the drugs prescribed by spanish general internists.

[Importance of HDL cholesterol determination in the evaluation of coronary risk in clinical practice].

Objective: To validate to what extent the isolated determination of total Cholesterol (TC) is effective when seeking to predict coronary risk.

Design: An observational crossover study of the analytic determinations of the clinics which systematically request TC and HDL-Cholesterol (HDL)--case-finding method.

Setting: Health Centre.