Background Concern has been expressed about the relevance of secondary care studies to
primary care patients specifically about the effectiveness of antidepressant medication. …

Background There are no systematic reviews of corticosteroids for shoulder pain that calculate
the numbers needed to treat. Aim We wished to determine the effectiveness in terms of …

BackgroundItem 9 of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) queries about thoughts of
death and self-harm, but not suicidality. Although it is sometimes used to assess suicide risk, …

PURPOSE Although screening for unipolar depression is controversial, it is potentially an
efficient way to find undetected cases and improve diagnostic acumen. Using a reference …

Objectives To determine the efficacy of intra-articular corticosteroid injections for osteoarthritis
of the knee and to identify numbers needed to treat. Data sources Cochrane controlled …

Background Gonorrhoea is a major global public health problem that is exacerbated by drug
resistance. Effective vaccine development has been unsuccessful, but surveillance data …

… is that patients cannot cope with or understand certain information (Tobias and Souhami,
1993) that might make them anxious and lead the patient to refuse treatment (Goodyear-Smith, …

The goal of this systematic review was to summarise the social psychological literature on
theories of altruism in humans from 1960 to 2014. Material was sourced through online …

Background Implementation science research, especially when using participatory and co-design
approaches, raises unique challenges for research ethics committees. Such …

With the focus of the COVID-19 pandemic on the many challenges in public health, acute
and long-term care, what has happened within primary care has remained largely below the …