{"title":"Changing the future of youth who have type 2 diabetes.","authors":"Farrah Rodrigues, Hazel Clothier, Malcolm Clark, Emily Papadimos, Jim Buttery, Danielle Longmore","doi":"10.31128/AJGP-09-24-7414","DOIUrl":"10.31128/AJGP-09-24-7414","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54241,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of General Practice","volume":"54 7","pages":"492-494"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Just a GP: Diaries from a Career in General Practice.","authors":"Frances Pengelly","doi":"10.31128/AJGP-03-25-7625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31128/AJGP-03-25-7625","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54241,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of General Practice","volume":"54 7","pages":"496"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chatnapa Yodkitudomying, Ahsan Saleem, Daniel Fineberg, Elizabeth Robinson, Kerry Rendell, Judith Lowthian, Kaylene Fiddes, Angela Yerolemou, Rajna Ogrin
{"title":"Promoting holistic wellbeing in general practice through social prescribing.","authors":"Chatnapa Yodkitudomying, Ahsan Saleem, Daniel Fineberg, Elizabeth Robinson, Kerry Rendell, Judith Lowthian, Kaylene Fiddes, Angela Yerolemou, Rajna Ogrin","doi":"10.31128/AJGP-04-24-7226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31128/AJGP-04-24-7226","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54241,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of General Practice","volume":"54 7","pages":"490-491"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephanie Thomson, Isabella White, Rudy Goh, Stephen Bacchi, Luke Collins
{"title":"A false dichotomy: Functional gait overlay in neurological disorders.","authors":"Stephanie Thomson, Isabella White, Rudy Goh, Stephen Bacchi, Luke Collins","doi":"10.31128/AJGP-11-24-7466","DOIUrl":"10.31128/AJGP-11-24-7466","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54241,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of General Practice","volume":"54 7","pages":"448-451"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Australians' knowledge of general practice data sharing: Findings from a focus group study and cross-sectional survey.","authors":"Annette J Braunack-Mayer, Alberto Nettel Aguirre, Belinda Fabrianesi, Lucy Carolan, Justin Beilby, Carolyn Adams, Felicity Flack","doi":"10.31128/AJGP-04-24-7242","DOIUrl":"10.31128/AJGP-04-24-7242","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>Relatively little is known about public understanding of the secondary use of general practice data. We investigated what the Australian public knows about the secondary use of information in their general practice records.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The investigation used a mixed methods approach with four focus groups (n=22) and a cross-sectional survey that was weighted to be nationally representative (n=2604).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Participants broadly understood what was in their general practice record. Most believed it was shared with hospital health professionals and other medical staff to support their care. Fewer than 30% thought their health information was shared with health administrators, planners and researchers, and fewer than half believed it was used for planning, to improve health services generally or for research.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The secondary use of general practice data outside the clinical encounter is poorly understood by the public. More and better information about how, where and with whom general practice data are shared is needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":54241,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of General Practice","volume":"54 7","pages":"471-476"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neurological conditions.","authors":"Claire Denness","doi":"10.31128/AJGP-07-25-1234e","DOIUrl":"10.31128/AJGP-07-25-1234e","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54241,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of General Practice","volume":"54 7","pages":"421"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"June 2025 correspondence.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54241,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of General Practice","volume":"54 6","pages":"329-330"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144227618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Infant and child health.","authors":"Brendon Evans","doi":"10.31128/AJGP-06-25-1234e","DOIUrl":"10.31128/AJGP-06-25-1234e","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54241,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of General Practice","volume":"54 6","pages":"325"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144227616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Erratum.","authors":"","doi":"10.31128/AJGP-06-25-9876e","DOIUrl":"10.31128/AJGP-06-25-9876e","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54241,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of General Practice","volume":"54 6","pages":"330"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144227612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nishadi N Withanage, Sharon James, Jessica R Botfield, Kirsten I Black, Jeana Wong, Danielle Mazza
{"title":"Optimising the use of general practice medical records to support preconception care: A qualitative study.","authors":"Nishadi N Withanage, Sharon James, Jessica R Botfield, Kirsten I Black, Jeana Wong, Danielle Mazza","doi":"10.31128/AJGP-05-24-7276","DOIUrl":"10.31128/AJGP-05-24-7276","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>Preconception care (PCC) reduces preconception health risk factors and improves pregnancy outcomes. General practice electronic medical records (EMRs) contain valuable preconception health data. This study interviewed general practitioners (GPs) and practice nurses (PNs) to investigate their perceived acceptability and feasibility of using EMR data to identify, invite and improve PCC provision to reproductive-aged female patients at risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Twenty semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with GPs and PNs and analysed using inductive reflexive thematic analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Identifying patients with preconception health risk factors using EMRs was mostly acceptable and feasible. Recommendations included directing invitations towards women with reproductive intent, using generic language to avoid stigmatising individuals and raising awareness of the importance and availability of PCC.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>As perceived by GPs and PNs, improving EMR data quality, currency of preconception health risk factors and recording reproductive intent would enhance the feasibility and acceptability of sending PCC invitations based on EMR-generated risk profiles.</p>","PeriodicalId":54241,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of General Practice","volume":"54 6","pages":"337-344"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144227620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}