Involving community pharmacists in interprofessional collaboration in primary care: a systematic review.

Background: The World Health Organization supports interprofessional collaboration in primary care. On over the past 20 years, community pharmacists had been taking a growing number of new responsibilities and they are recognized as a core member of collaborative care teams as patient-centered care providers. This systematic review aimed to describe interprofessional collaboration in primary care involving a pharmacist, and its effect on patient related outcomes.

Interprofessional collaboration in primary care: what effect on patient health? A systematic literature review.

Background: In a period of change in the organization of primary care, Interprofessional Collaboration (IPC) is presented as one of the solutions to health issues. Although the number of inter-professional interventions grounded in primary care increases in all developed countries, evidence on the effects of these collaborations on patient-centred outcomes is patchy. The objective of our study was to assess the effects of IPC grounded in the primary care setting on patient-centred outcomes.

Challenges of preconception genetic testing in France: A qualitative study.

Preconception genetic testing is carried out to inform couples on their carrier status for recessive or X-linked genetic disease, and aims to extend their possible reproductive choices. These genetic tests are available in several countries and are currently being considered in France in the context of bioethics laws revision, raising multiple medical, ethical, and societal concerns. To provide insights into questions relative to preconception genetic testing implementation, we conducted, through a qualitative research methodology, individual and group interviews in families with experience of genetic disease, physicians and researchers in the human and social sciences, and an ethics committee.

First French study relative to preconception genetic testing: 1500 general population participants' opinion.

Background: Until very recently, preconception genetic testing was only conducted in particular communities, ethnic groups or families for which an increased risk of genetic disease was identified. To detect in general population a risk for a couple to have a child affected by a rare, recessive or X-linked, genetic disease, carrier screening is proposed in several countries. We aimed to determine the current public opinion relative to this approach in France, using either a printed or web-based questionnaire.

Processes and determinants of integration of eGFR in physicians' drug prescriptions: a qualitative study of semi-structured interviews.

Aim: Our objective was to explore the processes and determinants leading physicians to integrate estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in their drug prescriptions.

Background: Access to patients' eGFR would allow primary care pharmacists to optimise their role in the procedure of safe prescribing. Some rare physicians actively integrate eGFR in their prescriptions, in a sporadically and uncoordinated manner.

Are there patient-related factors that influence sickness certification in patients with severe subjective health complaints? A cross-sectional exploratory study from different European countries.

Objectives: To develop hypotheses about whether there are patient-related factors that influence physicians' decision-making that can explain why some patients with severe subjective health complaints (SHCs) are more likely to be granted sick leave than others.

Design: Exploratory cross-sectional.

Setting: Assessments of patient-related factors after watching nine authentic video recordings of patients with severe SHC from a Norwegian general practice.

Physicians' assessments of work capacity in patients with severe subjective health complaints: a cross-sectional study on differences between five European countries.

Objectives: A comparison of appraisals made by general practitioners (GPs) in France and occupational physicians (OPs) and insurance physicians (IPs) in the Netherlands with those made by Scandinavian GPs on work capacity in patients with severe subjective health complaints (SHCs).

Setting: GPs in France and OPs/IPs in the Netherlands gathered to watch nine authentic video recordings from a Norwegian general practice.

Participants: 46 GPs in France and 93 OPs/IPs in the Netherlands were invited to a 1-day course on SHC.

[Does the duration of medical consultations have an impact on the prescription of psychotropic drugs? Cross-sectional study carried out in general practice on 2,896 procedures].

The French are the biggest consumers of psychoactive drugs in Europe. French general practitioners were accused of being partly responsible: it was stressed that psychoactive drugs would be a means to cut down the consultation time considering that the duration of a consultation for French GPs is the longest in Europe. Could there be a link between the duration of the consultation, the diagnosis of mental disorder and the prescription of psychoactive drugs? A prospective study was made among 44 GPs who noted down three days of consultation in 2007.

Usefulness of the short IQCODE for predicting postoperative delirium in elderly patients undergoing hip and knee replacement surgery.

Background/objective: The prevalence of postoperative delirium in elderly patients is >30%. The objective of this prospective study was to determine the usefulness of the short form of the Informant Questionnaire on COgnitive Decline in the Elderly (short IQCODE) to predict the occurrence of postoperative delirium after elective hip and knee arthroplasty in the elderly.

Methods: Consecutive patients, 60 years and older, who were admitted for elective hip or knee arthroplasty were included.