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Volume 74(741);  April 2024

Articles from this journal are generally available in PMC after a 12-month delay (embargo); however, the delay may vary at the discretion of the publisher.

Editor’s Briefing

The black box of medical journals
Euan Lawson
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 147. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X736725
PMCID:
PMC10962519
Currently embargoed: Free in PMC on Mar 28, 2025; PubMed

Editorials

We know the skills doctors need to work with care home residents: now we need to think about how to deliver them
Adam L Gordon, Lauren McCarthy, Kayla Borley, Rachael Carroll
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 148–149. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X736737
PMCID:
PMC10962516
Currently embargoed: Free in PMC on Mar 28, 2025; PubMed
Digital facilitation: supporting the use of NHS digital and online services
John Campbell, Helen Atherton, Gary Abel, Jon Sussex
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 150–151. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X736749
PMCID:
PMC10962515
Currently embargoed: Free in PMC on Mar 28, 2025; PubMed
Text-message reminders to increase participation in colorectal cancer screening
Wasim Hamad, Arnie Purushotham, Simon Hughes, Thomas Round
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 152. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X736761
PMCID:
PMC10962508
Currently embargoed: Free in PMC on Mar 28, 2025; PubMed

Letters

In-flight medical monitoring
Andy Ashworth
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 154. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X736773
PMCID:
PMC10962498
Currently embargoed: Free in PMC on Mar 28, 2025; PubMed
Responding to the war in Israel and Palestine
Ken Menon
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 154. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X736785
PMCID:
PMC10962529
Currently embargoed: Free in PMC on Mar 28, 2025; PubMed
The digital front door: demise of the ‘therapeutic history’?
Max Cooper, Jason Heath
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 154–155. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X736797
PMCID:
PMC10962520
Currently embargoed: Free in PMC on Mar 28, 2025; PubMed
Prednisolone in COPD: the overlooked harm
Sophie Elizabeth Yale
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 155. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X736809
PMCID:
PMC10962531
Currently embargoed: Free in PMC on Mar 28, 2025; PubMed

Life & Times

Unlocking the mystery: the nature and purpose of general practice
Andrew Papanikitas
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 166. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X736833
PMCID:
PMC10962528
Currently embargoed: Free in PMC on Mar 28, 2025; PubMed
Wherefore art thou?
Tasneem Khan
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 167. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X736845
PMCID:
PMC10962517
Currently embargoed: Free in PMC on Mar 28, 2025; PubMed
Right idea, wrong science? Should Critical Realism be the new science of medical practice?
Alistair Appleby
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 168–169. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X736857
PMCID:
PMC10962527
Currently embargoed: Free in PMC on Mar 28, 2025; PubMed
Embracing general practice’s inner platypus
Armando Henrique Norman
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 170–171. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X736869
PMCID:
PMC10962523
Currently embargoed: Free in PMC on Mar 28, 2025; PubMed
One Big Thing
Ben Hoban
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 172. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X736881
PMCID:
PMC10962505
Currently embargoed: Free in PMC on Mar 28, 2025; PubMed
GP careers: diving in at the Deep End?
Alex Burrell
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 173. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X736893
PMCID:
PMC10962522
Currently embargoed: Free in PMC on Mar 28, 2025; PubMed
From mother to daughter: imparting general wisdom from a career working in general practice
Sinead Millwood, Bernadette Millwood
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 174–175. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X736905
PMCID:
PMC10962526
Currently embargoed: Free in PMC on Mar 28, 2025; PubMed
Media coverage of A&E pressure as a potential driver of emergency admissions
Richard Armitage
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 176. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X736917
PMCID:
PMC10962525
Currently embargoed: Free in PMC on Mar 28, 2025; PubMed
Are we seeing more complex patients and, if so, why?
Nada Khan
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 177–178. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X736929
PMCID:
PMC10962507
Currently embargoed: Free in PMC on Mar 28, 2025; PubMed
Books: What is a Doctor? A GP’s Prescription for the Future: Our dream
Emma Ladds
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 178–179. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X736941
PMCID:
PMC10962509
Currently embargoed: Free in PMC on Mar 28, 2025; PubMed
Books: How Westminster Works … And Why it Doesn’t: Advanced state of decay
Terry Kemple
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 179–180. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X736953
PMCID:
PMC10962530
Currently embargoed: Free in PMC on Mar 28, 2025; PubMed
Books: The Health Fix: An accessible manual for healthier living
Andrew Papanikitas
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 180. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X736965
PMCID:
PMC10962513
Currently embargoed: Free in PMC on Mar 28, 2025; PubMed
The inverse confidence law
Saul Miller
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 181. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X736977
PMCID:
PMC10962501
Currently embargoed: Free in PMC on Mar 28, 2025; PubMed

Analysis

‘Sludge audits’ are needed to reduce barriers to care
Nathan Hodson, Joshua Parker, Michael Sobolev, Wändi Bruine de Bruin
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 182–183. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X736989
PMCID:
PMC10962506
Currently embargoed: Free in PMC on Mar 28, 2025; PubMed

Clinical Practice

Abdominopelvic venous pathology and chronic venous disease: a guide for general practice
Rama Chidambaram, Rachel Cryer, Julian Soares, Stefan Ponosh
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 184–186. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X737001
PMCID:
PMC10962514
Currently embargoed: Free in PMC on Mar 28, 2025; PubMed
Essential blood testing in the patient using androgenic anabolic steroids: a clinical practice guideline for primary care
Stephen M Gibbons, Mary Moulding, Keir Bailey, Kevin Stuart, Sid Wiffen, Andrew JP Lewington, Richard Parker, Carys Lippiatt, Nishan Guha, Jamie O’Shea, Mary Owen, Afroze Abbas, Julian H Barth
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 187–190. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X737013
PMCID:
PMC10962511
Currently embargoed: Free in PMC on Mar 28, 2025; PubMed

Research

Preventive interventions to improve older people’s health outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis
Leah Palapar, Jeanet W Blom, Laura Wilkinson-Meyers, Thomas Lumley, Ngaire Kerse
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): e208–e218. Published online 2024 Mar 19. doi: 10.3399/BJGP.2023.0180
PMCID:
PMC10962503
Article PDF–237K
Prediction of cardiovascular events in older patients with hypertension in primary care: a cohort study
Josephine ML de Hartog-Keyzer, Victor JM Pop, Laura Rodwell, Robin Nijveldt, Saloua El Messaoudi
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): e219–e226. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/BJGP.2023.0328
PMCID:
PMC10962521
Article PDF–189K
Parkinson’s disease: a scoping review of the quantitative and qualitative evidence of its diagnostic accuracy in primary care
Adnan Z Khan, Deepthi Lavu, Richard D Neal
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): e227–e232. Published online 2024 Mar 19. doi: 10.3399/BJGP.2023.0409
PMCID:
PMC10962518
Article PDF–111K
Sleep disturbance in people living with dementia or mild cognitive impairment: a realist review of general practice
Aidin Aryankhesal, Jessica Blake, Geoff Wong, Molly Megson, Simon Briscoe, Louise Allan, Niall M Broomfield, Zenahrai Eastwood, Leanne Greene, Andrea Hilton, Anne Killett, Alpar S Lazar, Rachael Litherland, Gill Livingston, Ian Maidment, Joanne Reeve, George Rook, Sion Scott, Jinpil Um, Jayden van Horik, Chris Fox
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): e233–e241. Published online 2024 Mar 19. doi: 10.3399/BJGP.2023.0171
PMCID:
PMC10962510
Article PDF–188K
Dementia prevention and the GP’s role: a qualitative interview study
Danielle Jones, Rachael Drewery, Karen Windle, Sara Humphrey, Andreia Fonseca de Paiva
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): e242–e249. Published online 2023 Aug 8. doi: 10.3399/BJGP.2023.0103
PMCID:
PMC10428004
Article PDF–160K
Developing user personas to capture intersecting dimensions of disadvantage in older patients who are marginalised: a qualitative study
Laiba Husain, Teresa Finlay, Arqam Husain, Joseph Wherton, Gemma Hughes, Trisha Greenhalgh
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): e250–e257. Published online 2024 Mar 5. doi: 10.3399/BJGP.2023.0412
PMCID:
PMC10947364
Article PDF–428K
A primary care research agenda for multiple long-term conditions: a Delphi study
Jonathan Stokes, Peter Bower, Susan M Smith, Bruce Guthrie, Thomas Blakeman, Jose M Valderas, Chris Salisbury
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): e258–e263. Published online 2024 Mar 5. doi: 10.3399/BJGP.2023.0163
PMCID:
PMC10947355
Article PDF–116K
The burden of acute eye conditions on different healthcare providers: a retrospective population-based study
Anna Rawlings, Angharad E Hobby, Barbara Ryan, Andrew Carson-Stevens, Rachel North, Mathew Smith, Sioned Gwyn, Nik Sheen, Jennifer H Acton
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): e264–e274. Published online 2024 Mar 5. doi: 10.3399/BJGP.2022.0616
PMCID:
PMC10947371
Article PDF–339K
Increasing bowel cancer screening using SMS in general practice: the SMARTscreen cluster randomised trial
Jennifer G McIntosh, Mark Jenkins, Anna Wood, Patty Chondros, Tina Campbell, Edweana Wenkart, Clare O’Reilly, Ian Dixon, Julie Toner, Javiera Martinez-Gutierrez, Linda Govan, Jon D Emery
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): e275–e282. Published online 2024 Mar 19. doi: 10.3399/BJGP.2023.0230
PMCID:
PMC10962502
Article PDF–137K

Corrections

Corrections
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 155. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X737025
Corrects:
Br J Gen Pract. 2022 May; 72(718): e369–e377.
PMCID:
PMC10962524
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Corrections
Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Apr; 74(741): 155. Published online 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.3399/bjgp24X737037
Corrects:
Br J Gen Pract. 2022 Jun; 72(719): e405–e412.
PMCID:
PMC10962499
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