Physicians' experiences, attitudes, and beliefs towards medical cannabis: a systematic literature review.

Background: An increasing number of countries legalise the use of medical cannabis or allow it for a narrow range of medical conditions. Physicians, and often the patients' general practitioner, play a major role in implementing this policy. Many of them, however, perceive a lack of evidence-based knowledge and are not confident with providing patients with medical cannabis.

Does accreditation of general practice promote patient-reported quality of care? A natural cluster randomised experiment.

Objective: To investigate whether accreditation of general practice in Denmark promotes patient-reported quality of care and patient satisfaction.

Design: A national cluster randomised case control study based on an online version of the Danish Patients Evaluate Practice questionnaire. Mixed effects ordered logit regression models taking account of clustering of patients in different municipalities were used in the analyses.

Associations between degrees of task delegation and adherence to COPD guidelines on spirometry testing in general practice - a national cross-sectional study.

Background: The healthcare systems in the western world have in recent years faced major challenges caused by demographic changes and altered patterns of diseases as well as political decisions influencing the organisation of healthcare provisions. General practitioners are encouraged to delegate more clinical tasks to their staff in order to respond to the changing circumstances. Nevertheless, the degree of task delegation varies substantially between general practices, and how these different degrees affect the quality of care for the patients is currently not known.

Cross-cultural adaptation of the medical engagement scale into Danish general practice setting.

The need to involve doctors in healthcare leadership has long been recognized by clinical staff and policymakers. A Medical Engagement Scale has been designed in England to evaluate levels of medical engagement in leadership and management. The aim of this study was to translate and adapt the scale and to test the translated version for comprehension and suitability in Danish general practice setting.

Are formalised implementation activities associated with aspects of quality of care in general practice? A cross-sectional study.

Background: There is a substantial variation in how different general practices manage knowledge implementation, including the degree to which activities are collectively and formally organised. Yet, it is unclear how these differences in implementation activities affect quality of care.

Aim: To investigate if there are associations between specific formalised knowledge implementation activities and quality of care in general practices, exemplified by the use of spirometry testing.

Work motivation, task delegation and job satisfaction of general practice staff: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Recent research has shown that a high degree of task delegation is associated with the practise staff's overall job satisfaction, and this association is important to explore since job satisfaction is related to medical as well as patient-perceived quality of care.

Objectives: This study aimed: (1) to investigate associations between degrees of task delegation in the management of chronic disease in general practice, with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as a case and the staff's work motivation, (2) to investigate associations between the work motivation of the staff and their job satisfaction.

Methods: The study was based on a questionnaire to which 621 members of the practice staff responded.

Associations between degrees of task delegation and job satisfaction of general practitioners and their staff: a cross-sectional study.

Background: In recent years, the healthcare system in the western world has undergone a structural development caused by changes in demography and pattern of disease. In order to maintain the healthcare system cost-effective, new tasks are placed in general practice urging the general practitioners to rethink the working structure without compromising the quality of care. However, there is a substantial variation in the degree to which general practitioners delegate tasks to their staff, and it is not known how these various degrees of task delegation influence the job satisfaction of general practitioners and their staff.

Relations between task delegation and job satisfaction in general practice: a systematic literature review.

Background: It has for years been discussed whether practice staff should be involved in patient care in general practice to a higher extent. The research concerning task delegation within general practice is generally increasing, but the literature focusing on its influence on general practitioners' and their staff's job satisfaction appears to be sparse even though job satisfaction is acknowledged as an important factor associated with both patient satisfaction and medical quality of care. Therefore, the overall aim of this study was 1) to review the current research on the relation between task delegation and general practitioners' and their staff's job satisfaction and, additionally, 2) to review the evidence of possible explanations for this relation.

Variation in general practitioners' information-seeking behaviour - a cross-sectional study on the influence of gender, age and practice form.

Objective: To assess general practitioners' (GPs') information-seeking behaviour and perceived importance of sources of scientific medical information and to investigate associations with GP characteristics.

Design: A national cross-sectional survey was distributed electronically in December 2013.

Setting: Danish general practice.

How GPs implement clinical guidelines in everyday clinical practice--a qualitative interview study.

Background: Clinical guidelines are considered to be essential for improving quality and safety of health care. However, interventions to promote implementation of guidelines have demonstrated only partial effectiveness and the reasons for this apparent failure are not yet fully understood.

Objective: To investigate how GPs implement clinical guidelines in everyday clinical practice and how implementation approaches differ between practices.