Primary Omental Torsion in an Old Woman: Imaging Techniques Can Prevent Unnecessary Surgical Interventions by Mohhamad-Hadi Saeed Modaghegh, Reza Jafarzadeh

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Two Approaches to Cognitive Evaluation: Assessing the Strengths and Limitations of GPCOG and ACE-III by Magdalena Mąka, Dominik Sikora, Piotr Oleksy, Adam Zając, Karol Zieliński, Łukasz Papież, Ewa Góralczyk, Jakub Kamiński, Bartosz Buczkowski, Dagmara Wochnik

“…This review examines the Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination-III (ACE-III) and the General Practitioner Assessment of Cognition (GPCOG), focusing on their sensitivity, specificity, and utility in diverse healthcare contexts.  …”
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Tuberculosis Infection Mimicking Brain Metastatic Malignancy Lesions in an Elderly Male by Dimitrios Anyfantakis, Ageliki Damianaki, Maria Kokosi, Emmanouil K. Symvoulakis, Serafim Kastanakis

“…An 83-year-old Caucasian Greek man was referred by his general practitioner to the emergency department of the general hospital in Crete because of seizures and agitation. …”
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Interarm Difference in Blood Pressure: Reproducibility and Association with Peripheral Vascular Disease by Jesper Mehlsen, Niels Wiinberg

“…Data were included from consecutive patients referred from their general practitioner to our vascular laboratory for possible PAD aged 50 years or older without known cardiac disease, renal disease, or diabetes mellitus. 824 patients (453 women) with mean age of 72 years (range: 50–101) were included. 491 patients had a diagnosis of hypertension and peripheral arterial disease (PAD) was present in 386 patients. …”
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Transformasi Kesehatan melalui Perbaikan Sanitasi: Kiprah dr. Budi Laksono sebagai Relawan Kesehatan, 1991-2019 by Ckrystin Natalia Hutapea, Mahendra Pudji Utama

“…Budi Laksono is a doctor who deeply concerned with Indonesian public health, encountered numerous patients suffering from gastrointestinal diseases during his tenure as a general practitioner. These diseases were attributed to unsanitary living conditions in the area. …”
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Giant Adult Mesenteric Lipoma: A Rare Cause of Chronic Abdominal Distention and Discomfort by Houssam Khodor Abtar, Fahed Kheireddine Abdallah, Rayan Said Lakkis, Jad Jamal Terro, Nathalie Haidar Ismail, Mohammad Ahmad Al Raishouni, Houssein Haidar Ahmad, Kassem Mohammad Jammoul

“…The patient was seen by a general practitioner after complaining of an inflated abdomen, as he described his condition. …”
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Do NSAID/COX-2 Inhibitors Increase Nonunion After Fracture Surgery? Dilemma and Consideration In Use by Azmi

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Myomectomy in Two Sisters with Multiple Myomas: A Case Series by Fariba Seyedoshohadaei, Kian Lahourpour, Hana Sohrabi, Seyedeh Tayebeh Ghazavi, Bezad Gholamveisi

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Fever and Shock in a Child: How 'good' is a Good Blood Test? by Nevin Kollannoor Chinnan, Pragnyadipta Mishra, GD Puri

“…At the beginning of her illness, she was treated with a complete course of oral chloroquine by a general practitioner. In the pediatric emergency room, she presented with a heart rate of 136 beats/min, a respiratory rate of 56 breaths/min, a temperature of 37.8°C, a blood pressure of 60/30 mmHg and a capillary filling time of 5 s to 6 s. …”
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The Takeda Three Colors Combination Test: A Screening Test for Detection of Very Mild Alzheimer’s Disease by Shinya Takeda, Kayo Tajime, Toshiatsu Taniguchi

“…Thus, we believe the TTCC shows great potential for use as an AD screening test by a general practitioner in communities worldwide.…”
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Specialty-specific Evaluation of Virtual care Outcomes: A retrospective QUality and safety analysis (S-EVOQUe). by Shawn Mondoux, Frank Battaglia, Anastasia Gayowsky, Natasha Clayton, Cailin Langmann, Paul Miller, Alim Pardhan, Julie Mathews, Alex Drossos, Keerat Grewal

“…Over 70% of patients included were seen by a General Practitioner. With few exceptions and across almost all specialties, revisits, ED visits, admissions, ICU and OR use, and mortality were found to be more frequent for patients seen in person. …”
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Infant Feeding Practices and Nut Allergy over Time in Australian School Entrant Children by Jessica Paton, Marjan Kljakovic, Karen Ciszek, Pauline Ding

“…There was a positive association between parent reported nut allergy and breast feeding (OR=1.53; 1.11–2.11) and having a regular general practitioner (GP) (OR=1.42; 1.05–1.92). A protective effect was found in children who were fed foods other than breast milk in the first six months (OR=0.71; 0.60–0.84). …”
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Retained multiple contact lenses in a vulnerable dementia patient by Rohit SHARMA, Zuhair SHARIF

“…Also the need for ca- reful mandatory documentation in the clinical notes and communications to the general practitioner or care home about the insertion and removal of contact lenses with dates and name of professional perfoming this.…”
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Cardiologists' attitudes on communication about prognosis with heart failure patients by Martje H.L. van derWal, Lisa Hjelmfors, Anna Strömberg, Tiny Jaarsma

“…The patient's own cardiologist, another cardiologist, the HF nurse, or the general practitioner could discuss this with the patient. …”
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Investigating contemporary dental practice in restorative dentistry and Dentists-related factors in placing and replacing restorations in Kurdistan, Iraq by Bushra Rashid Noaman, Lezan Dawood Fattah

“…Method: a cross-sectional study included two hundred general practitioner dentists whose experiences from 1-20 years were divided into two groups (1-10 and 11-20 years). …”
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Sexual and Cardiovascular health.Factors Influencing on the Quality of Sexual Life of Coronary Heart Disease Patients - a Narrative Review by Piegza M, Smolarczyk J, Piegza J

“…The responsibility for counselling lies with cardiologists, general practitioner (GP) and nursing staff. Sexual rehabilitation should be an integral part of cardiac rehabilitation, and lifestyle modification and optimal treatment of underlying medical conditions are key to maintaining psychophysical well-being and a successful sex life.Keywords: sexual activity, cardiovascular risk factors, erectile dysfunction, Princeton consensus, myocardial infarction…”
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Qualitative study of patients experiences and perceptions of stepping down asthma medication in primary care across England by Chloe I Bloom, Adam Lewis, Jack Middleton

“…Little is known about the experiences and views of patients regarding stepping down.Methods Patients with stable asthma, with regular use of a preventer inhaler, from general practitioner practices across England, participated in a survey and/or semi-structured interview. …”
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Transtelephonic Electrocardiographic Transmission in the Preparticipation Screening of Athletes by Theodoros Samaras, Savvato Karavasiliadou, Evangelia Kouidi, John N. Sahalos, Asterios Deligiannis

“…A total of 506 players, aged 20.5 ± 6.2 years, from 23 soccer clubs in the prefecture of Thessaloniki, Greece, were physically examined in their playfields by a general practitioner (GP) and had their ECG recorded. In 142 cases, and on the judgment of the GP, the ECG was transmitted via POTS and/or global system for mobile communications (GSM) to a specialised medical centre where it was evaluated by a cardiologist. …”
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Alopecia and Iron Deficiency: An Interventional Pilot Study in Primary Care to Improve the Request of Ferritin by Maria Salinas, Maria Leiva-Salinas, Emilio Flores, Maite López-Garrigós, Carlos Leiva-Salinas

“…Retrospective and prospective observational cross-sectional studies were conducted, as well as an intervention to automatically register and measure ferritin when not requested by the general practitioner. Results. There were 343 and 1032 primary care laboratory requests prompted by alopecia in the retrospective and prospective studies. …”
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Performance of Integrated Emergency Surgical Officers at Mizan-Tepi University Teaching Hospital, Mizan-Aman, Ethiopia: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Margo S. Harrison, Ephrem Kirub, Tewodros Liyew, Biruk Teshome, Andrea Jimenez-Zambrano, Margaret Muldrow, Teklemariam Yarinbab

“…Of the remaining women, almost three-fourths (73.6%, n = 732) of women were attended by a midwife, almost a quarter were attended by an IESO (24.4%, n = 243), 10 women were attended by a physician with a General Practitioner level of training (1.0%), 5 women were delivered by an Ob/Gyn resident (0.5%), and 5 women were attended by an Ob/Gyn (0.5%). …”
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