Background: Conflicting international guidelines exist on the management of sore throat by antibiotics.
Objectives: To assess with the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation II (AGREE) instrument the quality of guidelines for uncomplicated acute group A beta-haemolytic streptococcal (GABHS) sore-throat. To make a sensitivity analysis restricted to guidelines with a rigour of development score higher than 60% and to describe their recommendations on scores, tests, and antibiotic therapy, including their justification.
Objectives: To estimate the transferability of processes of care from general practitioners (GPs) to allied healthcare professionals and the determinants of such transferability.
Design: French national cross-sectional multicentre study SETTING: 128 family practices providing supervised training for residents in general practice.
Participants: All patients consulting with their GP over a total number of 20 days (ie, 1 day a week from December 2011 to April 2012).
Introduction: The current restructuring of primary healthcare aims toward the creation of coordinated practices, which involves new roles for pharmacists. The objectives of this study were to identify all the French multidisciplinary medical homes and poles (MMHs and MMPs) with pharmacists currently active, and to describe how they are organized and operate.
Methods: This study focused on metropolitan MMHs and MMPs, active during the second semester of 2013, which include one or several pharmacists.
Background: It is essential to anticipate and limit the social, economic and sanitary cost of type 2 diabetes (T2D), which is in constant progression worldwide. When blood glucose targets are not achieved with diet and lifestyle intervention, insulin is recommended whether or not the patient is already taking hypoglycaemic drugs. However, the benefit/risk balance of insulin remains controversial.
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