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Br J Gen Pract

January 2013

Horfield Health Centre, Lockleaze Road, Bristol BS7 9RR, UK.

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Background: Foot ulceration is a major health problem for people with diabetes. To minimise the risk of ulceration, patients are advised to perform preventive foot self-care.

Aim: To explore beliefs about diabetic foot complications and everyday foot self-care practices among people with type 2 diabetes.

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The success of a screening programme for cancer depends on the sensitivity of the tests used and on the proportion of the target population that comes forward for screening. To assess the value of digital rectal screening and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) measurement as screening measures, the 814 men in a city general practice aged between 55 and 70 were recruited in one of five different ways. Men with a palpably suspicious prostate or a serum PSA greater than 4 ng/ml were referred for transrectal ultrasonography and, if indicated, biopsy.

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Objectives: To complete a first audit cycle of diabetes care in a general practice and to develop a simple method for continuing the audit cycle.

Design: Retrospective examination of the medical records of all diabetic patients in a general practice in 1990.

Setting: A group general practice in a Bristol health centre with roughly 13,200 patients, which since 1983 had had a protocol for care of its diabetic patients.

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