Patient safety in general practice during COVID-19: a descriptive analysis in 38 countries (PRICOV-19).

Background: This article aims to examine patient safety in general practice during COVID-19.

Methods: In total, 5489 GP practices from 37 European countries and Israel filled in the online self-reported PRICOV-19 survey between November 2020 and December 2021. The outcome measures include 30 patient safety indicators on structure, process, and outcome.

Transitioning from face-to-face to distance education. Part 1: A cross-sectional study in the former Yugoslavia during COVID-19.

Background: The countries of the former Yugoslavia have health and education systems with the same tradition but these have changed over the years. Little is known about how family medicine teaching transitioned from face-to-face to distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objectives: to investigate student/teacher experience in transitioning from face-to-face to distance education.

Illness perception and cardiovascular risk factors in patients with type 2 diabetes: cross-sectional questionnaire study.

AIM. To investigate illness perception in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and its association with the degree of control over relevant cardiovascular risk factors. METHODS.

Burnout in European family doctors: the EGPRN study.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of burnout, and of associated factors, amongst family doctors (FDs) in European countries. Methodology. A cross-sectional survey of FDs was conducted using a custom-designed and validated questionnaire which incorporated the Maslach Burnout Inventory Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS) as well as questions about demographic factors, working experience, health, lifestyle and job satisfaction.

Information systems and the electronic health record in primary health care.

The implementation of information systems into primary health care opened the possibilities of providing integrated and co-ordinated health care, improved in quality and focused on the healthcare user. The healthcare system, researchers, physicians, and patients have recognised the benefits offered by informatics, but also raised questions that have yet to be answered.

[Specialization in family medicine--has all the planned been achieved?].

The planned, comprehensive inclusion of general practitioners/family physicians in specialist education has begun with the project entitled Harmonization of Family Medicine Service with European Standards by the Implementation of Compulsory Residency. According to the Project, all physicians working in family medicine practice should have an opportunity to complete the respective residency by 2015. Analysis of the planned and completed family medicine residency in Croatia during the 2002-2006 period is presented.

[Care for terminal cancer patients at general practitioner office].

The final goal of palliative care is symptom relief and improving the quality of life. Around 70% of cencer patients suffer pain. Therapy and care provided for dying cancer patients by general practitioners at Dugave-Travno GP Office were investigated.

[Characteristics of depression in Otocac ten years after the war].

Background: Depression is an important public health problem today. In the primary care setting, a high percentage of patients with depression present exclusively with physical symptoms; depression can often go undiagnosed in these patients. Another challenge for primary care doctors is the treatment of patients with depression and somatic comorbidity.

[GP's intervention in changing lifestyle behavior of adipose patients].

Background: Obesity and physical inactivity (silent epidemic) are the dominant causes of insulin resistance. Obesity is a major public health concern, associated with high morbidity and mortality. The disease is the result of an increased energy intake in relation to its expenditure.

[Underestimation of varicella incidence--frequency of requests for medical assistance].

Introduction: The Netherlands Institute of Primary Health Care (NIVEL), University of Utrecht, conducted an international scientific project "Health Monitoring in Primary Care Based Sentinel Practice Network" in 10 European countries, based upon regular and continuous observations of one or more diseases. Sentinel practice networks have been established to provide data on incidence and other health indicators of the diseases managed predominantly in primary care. Department of Family Medicine of the "Andrija Stampar" School of Public Health, Zagreb Medical School, participated in the research.

[Scientific and research projects of the Department of Family Medicine--contribution to the identity of general practice/family medicine as a scientific discipline].

The main task of an academic department of any medical discipline is an integrated development and improvement of professional, scientific and educational activities. The proces of formulation, establishment and recognition of general practice/family medicine as an academic discipline in Croatia started with postgraduate education and vocational training in 1960 at the Andrija Stampar School of Public Health. In 1980 Department of Family Medicine of the Medical School, University of Zagreb was officially established.