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Special issue: Race and Racism in Primary Care

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The Black Lives Matter campaign has highlighted issues of race and racism that are present in all parts of our communities and organisations. In this special collection of BJGP Open, we have collated evidence from recent individual lived experiences, alongside practice and practice submissions on this important issue. We additionally set out the journal’s ambitious programme of work to tackle racism within publication science, and we open consultation on the collection of anonymised sociodemographic data from all our authors. This will allow us to report publication statistics by ethnicity and make changes to address disparities, if they are found. We are interested in hearing your opinions. Join the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #RacismInPrimaryCare, send us an e-letter at https://bjgpopen.org/letters, or email us.

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BJGP Open is an international, peer reviewed, open access, online-only journal of primary care, which publishes original research and other articles of importance to primary care clinicians, researchers and teachers worldwide.

The full BJGP Open archive is available on this site, is preserved in Portico, and can be viewed at PubMed Central. The journal is fully indexed on PubMed, Scopus, and Embase, and is included in the Directory of Open Access Journals. 

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  • GP decisions to participate in emergencies: a randomised vignette study
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    5 January 2021
  • Clinical and serological profile of asymptomatic and non-severe symptomatic COVID-19 cases: Lessons...
    12 January 2021
  • Communicating with people with hearing loss: COVID-19 and beyond
    12 January 2021
  • General practice recommendations for the topical treatment of psoriasis: a modified-Delphi approach
    10 November 2020
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  • Denigration of general practice as a career choice: The students’ perspective. A qualitative study
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    BJGP Open 20 January 2021; bjgpopen20X101132. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen20X101132
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    BJGP Open 4 December 2020; bjgpopen20X101145. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen20X101145
  • Communicating with people with hearing loss: COVID-19 and beyond
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    BJGP Open 13 January 2021; BJGPO.2020.0174. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2020.0174
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Special issue: COVID-19 and Primary Care

How is the COVID-19 pandemic influencing the ability of international health systems to deliver high quality primary care? Read Guest Editor Dr Luke Allen’s introduction to this special issue, which includes managing the pandemic in rural Africa, the response from six well-resourced countries, and the relationship between perceived ‘strong’ primary care and COVID-19 mortality.

 

Naturietic peptide blood tests and heart failure

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In this observational study from the Netherlands, Valk and colleagues examined the frequency of natriuretic peptide requests by GPs in excluding or confirming a diagnosis of heart failure. Their results suggest under-utilisation of this blood test. The authors encourage GPs to increase test requests in excluding heart failure and for opportunistic screening. 

 

 

Spirometry to detect early lung disease in adults

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There is limited evidence on the value of using spirometry in early adults to predict the later development of lung disease. In this Danish population-based study, spirometry in two cohorts, aged 30-49 years, and 45-64 years was shown to have a high predictive value in identifying cases of subsequent lung disease. The authors suggest that this evidence should encourage GPs to use spirometry more frequently in younger adults as a predictive tool.

Did social distancing reduce the spread of COVID-19?

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In this study, 5-weekly COVID-19 incidence rates per 100 000 people for 149 English Upper Tier Local Authorities were examined between 16 March and 19 April 2020. The results suggest that COVID-19 rates strongly decreased in the most densely populated areas of the UK. These findings have substantial implications for the easing of social distancing measures, particularly within highly populated areas.

 

Medical students' view of general practice

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Medical schools globally do not have sufficient numbers of graduates choosing primary care. Sahota and colleagues spoke to 51 medical students in Canada and the UK to explore this further. Their findings suggest that medical students often perceive primary care as a less intellectually stimulating discipline, associating it with teaching rather than seeing it as an academic or research-based specialty.

 

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