Editor’s Briefing
Highlights
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 267.
Domhnall MacAuley
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 267.
Editorials
Protecting the health of doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic
Azeem Majeed, Mariam Molokhia, Bharat Pankhania and Kaveh Asanati
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 268-269.
COVID-19: a danger and an opportunity for the future of general practice
Martin Marshall, Amanda Howe, Gary Howsam, Michael Mulholland and Jonathan Leach
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 270-271.
What’s behind the NEWS? National Early Warning Scores in primary care
Samuel Finnikin and Veronica Wilke
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 272-273.
Rapid access to brief psychological treatments for self-harm and suicidal crisis
Pooja Saini, Cecil Kullu, Emma Mullin, Jane Boland and Peter Taylor
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 274-275.
Making hospital discharge safer for frail older patients
Rachel Ann Spencer
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 276-277.
Religious cliché and COVID-19 management: a barrier for physicians
Qaiser Iqbal, Abdul Malik Tareen and Fahad Saleem
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 278.
Pandemic preparedness starts in properly coded electronic health records
Pablo Millares Martin
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 278-279.
Clinical scores in primary care
Brian H Willis, Dyuti Coomar and Mohammed Baragilly
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 279.
Sarcopenia: hand grip dynamometers, the latest addition to the doctor’s bag
Irfan Ahmed
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 279-280.
NEWS2: supporting and enhancing clinical judgement?
Diarmuid Quinlan
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 280.
COVID-19
Shikha Pitalia
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 280.
Child care in the primary care environment
Vernon H Needham
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 280-281.
To ground or not to ground
Boghos l Artinian
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 281.
Chronic non-communicable diseases: a sacrifice on the altar of COVID-19?
Philippe Domeyer, Vasiliki Katsari and Anargiros Mariolis
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 281.
Research
Association between National Early Warning Scores in primary care and clinical outcomes: an observational study in UK primary and secondary care
Lauren J Scott, Niamh M Redmond, Alison Tavaré, Hannah Little, Seema Srivastava and Anne Pullyblank
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): e374-e380.
Implementation of the National Early Warning Score in patients with suspicion of sepsis: evaluation of a system-wide quality improvement project
Anne Pullyblank, Alison Tavaré, Hannah Little, Emma Redfern, Hein le Roux, Matthew Inada-Kim, Kate Cheema andAdam Cook
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): e381-e388.
Association between use of urgent suspected cancer referral and mortality and stage at diagnosis: a 5-year national cohort study
Thomas Round, Carolynn Gildea, Mark Ashworth and Henrik M?ller
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): e389-e398.
Impact of emergency hospital admissions on patterns of primary care prescribing: a retrospective cohort analysis of electronic records in England
Rachel Denholm, Richard Morris, Sarah Purdy and Rupert Payne
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): e399-e405.
Risk factors for unplanned hospital admission in a specialist homeless general practice population: case–control study to investigate the relationship with tri-morbidity
Catherine Himsworth, Priyamvada Paudyal and Christopher Sargeant
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): e406-e411.
Delegating home visits in general practice: a realist review on the impact on GP workload and patient care
Ruth Abrams, Geoff Wong, Kamal R Mahtani, Stephanie Tierney, Anne-Marie Boylan, Nia Roberts and Sophie Park
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): e412-e420.
Contribution of paramedics in primary and urgent care: a systematic review
Georgette Eaton, Geoff Wong, Veronika Williams, Nia Roberts and Kamal R Mahtani
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): e421-e426.
Opportunistic screening versus usual care for diagnosing atrial fibrillation in general practice: a cluster randomised controlled trial
Femke Kaasenbrood, Monika Hollander, Steven HM de Bruijn, Carlijn PE Dolmans, Robert G Tieleman, Arno W Hoesand Frans H Rutten
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): e427-e433.
Effectiveness of different post-diagnostic dementia care models delivered by primary care: a systematic review
Rachael Frost, Kate Walters, Su Aw, Greta Brunskill, Jane Wilcock, Louise Robinson, Martin Knapp, Karen Harrison Dening, Louise Allan, Jill Manthorpe, Greta Rait and on behalf of the PriDem Study project team
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): e434-e441.
Life & Times
Viewpoint: What’s the NEWS? Supporting the identification of the deteriorating patient
Alison Tavaré
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 291.
Love in the time of Corona
Roghieh Dehghan
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 292.
Last haircut in Amwaj: COVID-19 in Bahrain
David Misselbrook
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 293.
GP at foot: remote ways to share management of diabetes amid the COVID-19 crisis
Ruth Chambers, Paul Beaney, Gayathri Balasubramanian and Seyi Ogunmekan
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 294.
Remote consulting: recognising the cognitive load
Lucy Ambrose
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 295.
Women in medicine: increasing in number but not regard
Emily Louise Bailey
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 296.
Short-term overseas volunteering: is it worth it?
Patrick Kiernan
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 297.
Yonder: Domestic violence, norovirus, palliative care referrals, and quarantine adherence
Ahmed Rashid
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 298.
Ill feelings
Giles Dawnay
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 299.
Books: Understanding and Responding to Self-Harm: the One Stop Guide
Faraz Mughal
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 300.
Books: Setting Up Community Health Development Programmes in Low and Middle Income Settings. 4th edition
Aaron Poppleton
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 300.
Books: Educated
Thomas Bransby
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 301.
Books: The Rough Beast: Psychoanalysis in Everyday Life
Oliver Starr
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 301.
Books: Choked: the Age of Air Pollution and the Fight for a Cleaner Future
Rhodri Evans
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 302.
Viewpoint: Language is our greatest weapon
Charlotte Sidebotham
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 303.
Debate & Analysis
Emergencies in general practice: could checklists support teams in stressful situations?
Paul Greig, Anne Maloney and Helen Higham
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 304-305.
GP home visits: essential patient care or disposable relic?
Sarah Mitchell, Sarah Hillman, David Rapley, Sir Denis Pereira Gray and Jeremy Dale
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 306-307.
Managing post-traumatic headache: guidance for primary care
David Kernick and Giorgio Lambru
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 308-309.
Sudden-onset dizziness and vertigo symptoms: assessment and management of vestibular causes
Helen Turner, Claire Lavender and Peter Rea
British Journal of General Practice 2020; 70 (695): 310-311.