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View Article and Find Full Text PDF[General practioners and medical guidelines: a sociological approach].
Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique
July 2008
Erase, laboratoire lorrain de sciences sociales, université Paul-Verlaine-Metz, Ile du Saulcy, B.P. 30309, 57006 Metz cedex 1, France.
Background: While designed to help physicians in their account of the changing state of the art and of the evidence-based medicine, the situation of the medical guidelines seem to be critical: they need time, they are too complex, they deal with pathologies as if they were isolated from the whole context.
Methods: In the survey, 279 general practioners were asked to answer a scenario dealing with these difficulties.
Results: More than a half of the practitioners interviewed approve the increasing role of guidelines in medical practice and say they try to take them into account, but they also say they generally rely on their own medical experience to operate a selection among the impressive set of guidelines they receive.
Chronic sorrow in the HIV-positive patient: issues of race, gender, and social support.
AIDS Patient Care STDS
January 2002
Department of Sociology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294-3350, USA.
This study used Olshansky's (1962) concept of chronic sorrow to examine social support needs of 21 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive men and women in a southern U.S. city.
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