Social issues in general practice - a survey assessing the interprofessional perspective of general practitioners and social workers regarding frequency, challenges, and needs.

Background: Health or illness and social issues cannot be viewed in isolation. Social problems can influence well-being and disease. General Practitioners (GPs) are requested to offer counselling opportunities to respond to the social issues of their patients adequately.

Measuring workload of Swiss general practice: a five-yearly questionnaire-based survey on general practitioners' self-reported working activities (2005-2020).

Introduction: General practitioners (GPs) play a key role in the delivery of health care in Switzerland. Assessing GPs' workload over time is essential to meet the population's health service demand and for future health care planning.

Methods: The study involved four questionnaire-based cross-sectional studies among a representative sample of Swiss GPs on a five-yearly basis since 2005.

[Evidence-Based Indication for Proton Pump Inhibitors - a Group Practice Perspective].

Evidence-Based Indication for Proton Pump Inhibitors - a Group Practice Perspective Little is known about the extent of non-evidence-based proton pump inhibitor (PPI) prescriptions in the general practice setting in Switzerland. A recommendation for long-term therapy was included in the "Top 5 list" of "smarter medicine" for the outpatient internal medicine in 2014. The observational study recorded the proportion of patients without evidence-based indication for PPI in a practice with six general practitioners retrospectively over three months.