Background Problems of quality and safety persist in health systems worldwide. We
conducted a large research programme to examine culture and behaviour in the English …

Aims To synthesize data from published studies and international experience to identify
evidence of potential benefits and drawbacks of direct patient reporting of suspected …

Asserts that the conception of social representations (SRs) has importance for the theory of
social psychology. It addresses the problems of knowledge and conceptual thought, and it …

Editor—Partnership with patients in sharing medical decisions is an idea of paramount civil
importance for modern health systems, as raised in correspondence in the eBMJ. 1 …

Roland Renyi, Communications Consultant and Chair of the Lindsay Leg Club Foundation
(2014–2017) The United Kingdom (UK) is an example of one of several countries …

A genomic scan of 18 swine autosomal chromosomes was constructed with 119
polymorphic microsatellite (ms) markers to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) for 11 growth …

In research it is necessary to balance the benefits and the risks to the patient. The patient
may benefit direct-ly, either immediately or in the future. Much qualita-tive research in …

Healthcare delivery and responsibility is changing. Patient-centered care is gaining
international acceptance with the patient taking greater responsibility for his/her health and …

An improved linkage map for human chromosome 19 containing 35 short tandem repeat
polymorphisms (STRPs) and one VNTR (D19S20) was constructed. The map included 12 …

Background Primary care service providers do not always respond to the needs of diverse
groups of patients, and so certain patients groups are disadvantaged. General practitioner …