Top Cited General/Family Practice Articles

We wanted to highlight our top cited research from 2018 - 2020 to draw attention to the high quality, cutting edge research in the field of General/Family Practice.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the core functions of primary care: will the cure be worse than the disease? A qualitative interview study in Flemish GPs Veronique Verhoeven, Giannoula Tsakitzidis, Hilde Philips and Paul Van Royen doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039674 Accuracy of the general practitioner's sense of alarm when confronted with dyspnoea and/or chest pain: a prospective observational study Marie Barais, Emilie Fossard, Antoine Dany et al doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034348 Evaluation of the effect of multidisciplinary simulation-based team training on patients, staff and organisations: protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster-mixed methods study of a national, insurer-funded initiative for surgical teams in New Zealand public hospitals Jennifer Weller, Jennifer Anne Long, Peter Beaveret al doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-032997

Potentially inappropriate prescribing in dementia: a state-of-the-art review since 2007 Joao Delgado, Kirsty Bowman and Linda Clare doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029172 Reprocessing filtering facepiece respirators in primary care using medical autoclave: prospective, bench-to-bedside, single-centre study Ralf E Harskamp, Bart van Straten, Jonathan Bouman  et al doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039454

Influenza-like illness and antimicrobial prescribing in Australian general practice from 2015 to 2017: a national longitudinal study using the MedicineInsight dataset Carla De Oliveira Bernardo, David Gonzalez-Chica and Nigel Stocks doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026396 Engaging primary care physicians in system change - an interpretive qualitative study in a remote and rural health region in Northern British Columbia, Canada David Snadden, Trish Reay, Neil Hanlon et al doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028395 GP retention in the UK: a worsening crisis. Findings from a cross-sectional survey Katherine Owen, Thomas Hopkins, Thomas Shortland et al doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026048

Prevalence and practice for rare diseases in primary care: a national cross-sectional study in the USA Ara Jo, Samantha Larson, Peter Carek et al doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027248 Qualitative evaluation of a complex intervention to implement health promotion activities according to healthcare attendees and health professionals: EIRA study (phase II) Mariona Pons-Vigués, Anna Berenguera, Núria Coma-Auli et al doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023872

Prevalence of physical conditions and multimorbidity in a cohort of adults with intellectual disabilities with and without Down syndrome: cross-sectional study Deborah Kinnear, Jill Morrison, Linda Allan et al doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018292 Spatial distribution of clinical computer systems in primary care in England in 2016 and implications for primary care electronic medical record databases: a cross-sectional population study Evangelos Kontopantelis, Richard John Stevens, Peter J Helms et al doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020738 Development and validation of the Multimorbidity Treatment Burden Questionnaire (MTBQ) Polly Duncan, Mairead Murphy, Mei-See Man et al doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019413

Patient navigators facilitating access to primary care: a scoping review Annette Peart, Virginia Lewis, Ted Brown et al doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019252 An electronic health records cohort study on heart failure following myocardial infarction in England: incidence and predictors Johannes M I H Gho, Amand F Schmidt, Laura Pasea et al doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018331