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general practice exam preparation: Prevention
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General practice exam preparation. Diary of Clinical Questions. Saturday, 1 September 2012. The following is mostly a summary of the "Red Book". Guidelines for preventative activities in general practice. Involves conducting tests (questionnaires or lab tests) on patients to work out who is more likely to be helped than harmed by further tests of treatment to reduce the risk of a disease. Must be obtained before carrying out any screening test. The test should be simple, safe and validated. Re-contemplat...
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general practice exam preparation: About This Site
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General practice exam preparation. Diary of Clinical Questions. G'day and welcome to "general practice exam preparation", a new blog, by an Australian general practice registrar, for Australian general practice registrars with these aims in mind;. Aim #1 Personal Study. Aim #2 Medical Education. Aim #3 Memory Aids. Aim #4 Real Life Cases. Aim #5 Difficult Presentations. The aim is not to scare your pants off but to encourage awareness, and prmote safe and sensible practice. John Murtagh's General Practice.
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general practice exam preparation: Conflict Resolution
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General practice exam preparation. Diary of Clinical Questions. Whether answering a phone call from an angry patient, dealing with an irate specialist, or having to mediate between members of staff, having some basic skills in conflict resolution will take a lot of stress out of your day. The first step in mastering conflict resolution is to. Resolution and a win-win situation more than you want to win a fight. You need to change your world view: Success is defusing a highly charged situation into on...
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general practice exam preparation: Hypertension Part 3: When to intervene
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General practice exam preparation. Diary of Clinical Questions. Sunday, 5 August 2012. Hypertension Part 3: When to intervene. High Blood pressure is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. None the less it is important to consider any individual risk factor in the context of overall. Treatment is influenced by. Associated conditions (diabetes and renal disease) and target organ damage. Improve long term survival and quality of life. Reduce overall cardiovascular risk. Systolic blood pressure 160...
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general practice exam preparation: August 2012
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General practice exam preparation. Diary of Clinical Questions. Sunday, 5 August 2012. Hypertension Part 3: When to intervene. High Blood pressure is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. None the less it is important to consider any individual risk factor in the context of overall. Treatment is influenced by. Associated conditions (diabetes and renal disease) and target organ damage. Improve long term survival and quality of life. Reduce overall cardiovascular risk. Systolic blood pressure 160...
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general practice exam preparation: Fitness to Drive
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General practice exam preparation. Diary of Clinical Questions. For commercial and private vehicle drivers March 2012. Health professionals have an ethical obligation and potentially a legal one to give clear advice to the patient in cases where illness of injury may affect safe driving ability. You should note in the medical record the nature of advice given. Consider directly reporting to the driver licencing authority whether the patient is:. Unable to appreciate the impact of their condition. Drivers...
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general practice exam preparation: Diagnostic Criteria
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general practice exam preparation: July 2012
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General practice exam preparation. Diary of Clinical Questions. Tuesday, 31 July 2012. Blood Pressure and CVD Risk. Blood Pressure and Absolute Cardiovascular Disease Risk. In Australia the risk of an adverse cardiovascular disease (CVD) event in the coming 5 years is assessed using the FRE (Framingham Risk Equation; Anderson and colleagues 1991). This is a predictive equation borne out of the Framingham Heart Study, which started in 1948. You can read about the Framingham Heart Study by. From here on th...
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general practice exam preparation: September 2012
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General practice exam preparation. Diary of Clinical Questions. Saturday, 1 September 2012. The following is mostly a summary of the "Red Book". Guidelines for preventative activities in general practice. Involves conducting tests (questionnaires or lab tests) on patients to work out who is more likely to be helped than harmed by further tests of treatment to reduce the risk of a disease. Must be obtained before carrying out any screening test. The test should be simple, safe and validated. Re-contemplat...