Background: Chest pain can be caused by various conditions, with life-threatening cardiac
disease being of greatest concern. Prediction scores to rule out coronary artery disease have …

Questions under study: We assessed the occurrence and aetiology of chest pain in primary
care practice. These features differ between primary and emergency care settings, where …

Background Mental disorders in primary care patients are frequently associated with physical
complaints that can mask the disorder. There is insufficient knowledge concerning the role …

Objective: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the main cause of death worldwide and
despite a higher prevalence in men, mortality from CVD is higher among women. Few studies …

Background The Marburg Heart Score (MHS) aims to assist GPs in safely ruling out coronary
heart disease (CHD) in patients presenting with chest pain, and to guide management …

Background The epidemiology of chest pain differs strongly between outpatient and emergency
settings. In general practice, the most frequent cause is the chest wall pain. However, …

Objectives To estimate the prevalence of multimorbidity using a list of 75 chronic conditions
derived from the International Classification for Primary Care, Second edition and developed …

Objectives Advances in biopsychosocial science have underlined the importance of taking
social history and life course perspective into consideration in primary care. For both clinical …

Objective To characterise in details a random sample of multimorbid patients in Switzerland
and to evaluate the clustering of chronic conditions in that sample. Methods 100 general …

Background Growing social inequities have made it important for general practitioners to
verify if patients can afford treatment and procedures. Incorporating social conditions into …