Quality of care in patients with hypertension: a retrospective cohort study of primary care routine data in Germany.

Background: Hypertension is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality if not properly managed. Primary care has a major impact on these outcomes if its strengths, such as continuity of care, are deployed wisely. The analysis aimed to evaluate the quality of care for newly diagnosed hypertension in routine primary care data.

Identifying Existing Evidence to Potentially Develop a Machine Learning Diagnostic Algorithm for Cough in Primary Care Settings: Scoping Review.

Background: Primary care is known to be one of the most complex health care settings because of the high number of theoretically possible diagnoses. Therefore, the process of clinical decision-making in primary care includes complex analytical and nonanalytical factors such as gut feelings and dealing with uncertainties. Artificial intelligence is also mandated to offer support in finding valid diagnoses.

Psychometric properties of the GP-Patient Relationship Questionnaire as an instrument for quality improvement in Germany.

Introduction: Since the patient-doctor relationship (PDR) plays a crucial role in patient primary health care and management, the evaluation of the PDR from both, the patients' and primary care physicians', perspectives is an important approach to improve the quality of primary care. However, although there are a variety of questionnaires surveying the patients' view of the PDR, only few consider the physicians' perspective. The purpose of this study was to develop a questionnaire that adds the physicians' perspective to an existing PDR instrument and thus enables a mutual assessment of the relationship.