Use of a 2-year continuing professional development programme to change Japanese physicians’ attitudes to learning primary care: a qualitative study by Masato Matsushima, Yasuki Fujinuma, Masayasu Seki, Tatsuhiro Joki, Hideo Okonogi, Yasuhiko Miura, Iwao Ohno, Jun Hiramoto

“…Objective To evaluate changes in the learning attitudes of primary care physicians.Design Qualitative study through one focus group interview with the programme’s participants. …”
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Knowledge, attitudes and practices of intensive care unit physicians towards the management of acute respiratory distress syndrome in China: a cross-sectional survey by Jing Qian, Yinglin Wu, Xiaoqin Zhao, Zhidan Qin, Yongyi Meng, Mingjing Yin, Hanchun Wen, Juntao Hu, Zhanhong Tang

“…Objectives This study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of intensive care unit (ICU) physicians in China towards acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).Design A cross-sectional study was conducted between September and November 2022.Participants A total of 497 ICU physicians participated, with 258 (51.91%) being male and the majority aged 30–40 years (56.74%).Interventions Participants were surveyed to evaluate their KAP regarding ARDS, with mediation analysis employed to elucidate the association between demographic characteristics and KAP scores.Primary and secondary outcome measures The mean scores for KAP were 11.89±2.64 (range: 0–17), 44.73±4.85 (range: 12–60) and 18.26±3.43 (range: 1–48), respectively. …”
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Evaluation of physicians' screening practices and knowledge levels regarding atrial fibrillation in patients over 65 years of age: A prospective study by Emre Bulbul, Erhan Simsek, Muhammet Kizmaz

“…This study aimed to evaluate the screening practices and knowledge levels of physicians regarding AF among patients aged ≥65 years. …”
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Addressing palliative care and end-of-life issues in patients with advanced cancer: a systematic review of communication interventions for physicians not specialised in palliative care by Corinna Bergelt, Karin Oechsle, Nele Harnischfeger, Hilke M Rath

“…Target group should also be organ-specific oncologists, as all primary caring physicians are responsible for timely communication. …”
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Impact of patient–family physician language concordance on healthcare utilisation and mortality: a retrospective cohort study of home care recipients in Ontario, Canada by Claire Kendall, Sharon Johnston, Michael Reaume, Peter Tanuseputro, Michael Pugliese, Douglas Manuel, Denis Prud'homme, Manish Sood, Ricardo Batista, Ewa Sucha, Rhiannon Roberts, Emily Rhodes, Emily Seale, Lise Bjerre, Louise Bouchard

“…Patient language was obtained from home care assessments while physician language was obtained from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. …”
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Engaging primary care physicians in system change – an interpretive qualitative study in a remote and rural health region in Northern British Columbia, Canada by David Snadden, Trish Reay, Neil Hanlon, Martha MacLeod

“…Objectives To describe how physicians were engaged in primary healthcare system change in a remote and rural Canadian health authority.Design A qualitative interpretive study based on a hermeneutic approach.Methods 34 transcribed in-depth interviews with physicians and administrators relevant to physician engagement were purposively sampled from a larger data set of 239 interviews gathered over a 3-year period from seven communities engaged in primary healthcare transformation. …”
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The integration of physician associates into Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust: a new role to address the challenge of physical health in mental health by Emma Glen

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Exploring physician approaches to conflict resolution in end-of-life decisions in the adult intensive care unit: protocol for a systematic review of qualitative research by Richard Huxtable, Harleen Kaur Johal, Giles Birchley

“…We aim to explore this by systematically reviewing and synthesising the published evidence, which addresses the following research question: what does existing qualitative research reveal about physician approaches to addressing conflict arising in EOL decisions in the AICU?…”
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Improving Health Care Efficiency Through the Integration of a Physician Assistant into an Infectious Diseases Consult Service at a Large Urban Community Hospital by Melissa Decloe, Janine McCready, James Downey, Jeff Powis

“…BACKGROUND: Physician assistants (PAs) have recently been introduced into the Canadian health care system in some provinces; however, there are little data demonstrating their impact.…”
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Challenges and barriers to physician decision-making for prescribing and deprescribing among patients with multimorbidity in eastern China’s primary care settings: a qualitative study by Ming Yan, Zhijie Xu, Andrew Farmer, Yu Xia, Mi Yao, Lingyan Wu, Xinmei Zhou, Liyan Han

“…Objectives Patients with multimorbidity have an increased risk of medication-related problems. Physicians face the dilemmas of multimorbidity management with multiple medications in primary care settings. …”
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‘That’s Enough’ - Workplace Violence Against Physicians, Pharmacists, and Nurses in Saudi Arabia: A Systematic Review of Prevalence, Causes, and Consequences by Alhomoud F

“…Despite the global attention to WPV, systematic reviews specifically addressing WPV across all three professions—physicians, pharmacists, and nurses—and in various healthcare settings in Saudi Arabia are lacking. …”
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Can ChatGPT provide health information as physicians do? Preliminary findings from a cross-sectional study of online medical consultation by Siqi Luo, Hongyi Qin, Hanlin Li, Cui Huang

“…This paper presents the preliminary findings of evaluating the capability of ChatGPT in responding to real-world patient questions from a patient point of view, using physician responses as a benchmark. Method. 24 patient questions and physician responses were collected from a Chinese professional medical consultation platform. …”
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Physicians’ moral distinctions between medical assistance in dying (MAiD) and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment in Canada: a qualitative descriptive study by Midori Matthew, Kieran Bonner, Andrew Stumpf

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Use of Fecal Occult Blood Test in Hospitalized Patients: Survey of Physicians Practicing in a Large Central Canadian Health Region and Canadian Gastroenterologists by Stephen Ip, AbdulRazaq AH Sokoro, Al Buchel, Debrah Wirtzfeld, Gerald Konrad, Tunji Fatoye, Harminder Singh

“…No previous study has evaluated the knowledge, beliefs and attitudes of practicing physicians on the use of FOBT among hospitalized patients and compared practices among physicians with different medical specialty training.…”
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Motives for choice of work in healthcare and individual performance of medical doctors working in public multispecialty hospitals in Warsaw by Malgorzata Chmielewska, Jakub Stokwiszewski, Justyna Markowska, Tomasz Hermanowski

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Psychiatric Referrals in a Tertiary Care Hospital in North India: A Retrospective Study by Akansha Bhardwaj, Dimple Gupta, Rashmi Prakash, Nimmi A. Jose

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Knowledge and attitude towards ankle sprain management among primary care physicians in the department of family medicine, King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia by Abdullah A. Alzahrani, Norah A. AlQarni, Fahad S. Alghamdi, Tariq A. Alghamdi

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Delay between Onset of Symptoms and Seeking Physician Intervention Increases Risk of Diabetic Foot Complications: Results of a Cross-Sectional Population-Based Survey by Norina A. Gavan, Ioan A. Veresiu, Etta J. Vinik, Aaron I. Vinik, Bogdan Florea, Cosmina I. Bondor

“…We present a post hoc analysis of 17,530 questionnaires collected as part of the 2012 screening for neuropathy using Norfolk Quality of Life tool in patients with diabetes in Romania, to assess the impact on foot complications of time between the onset of symptoms of diabetes/its complications and the physician visit. Odds ratios (ORs) for self-reporting neuropathy increased from 1.16 (95% CI: 1.07–1.25) in those who sought medical care in 1–6 months from symptoms of diabetes/its complications onset to 2.27 in those who sought medical care >2 years after symptoms onset. …”
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Impact of moral distress on burn-out: a cross-sectional survey of front-line family physicians during the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic by John Billimek, Johanna Shapiro, Cynthia Haq, Tan Nguyen, Avital Sabrina Fischer, Reece Fenning, John Michael Robb, Allison Slater, Uyen Mai, Tien Lam, Jan Paolo De La Cruz

“…Practising self-care and personal wellness were associated with decreased moral distress. Female physicians were 3.86-fold more likely to report worsening burn-out compared with male physicians. …”
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