Category: Research
Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy — not just ‘morning sickness’
New research published in the BJGP from Professor Roger Gadsby and his team at the University of Warwick has highlighted how ‘morning sickness’ is not an appropriate term for nausea and vomiting in pregnancy. Professor Gadsby suggests we need to “dump this unhelpful term morning sickness” and stop trivialising the condition.
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Putting methotrexate prescribing research into practice
New research published in the BJGP from Dr Ben Goldacre’s team in Oxford found that 23% of GPs still prescribed different strength methotrexate tablets (10mg and 2.5mg) to the same person in the past year — against the safety advice. The clear message for practice from the research is that GPs should check their prescribing and ensure people are switched away from 10mg methotrexate tablets.
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GP home visits: more evidence is urgently needed to inform debate
This article is written by Drs Sarah Mitchell, Sarah Hillman, David Rapley, and Professor Jeremy...
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Living with breathlessness is hard
Dr Ann Hutchinson and Prof Miriam Johnson are researchers at the Wolfson Palliative Care Research...
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Research priorities in primary care: ideas from the coal-face
Setting research priorities in primary care: a co-creation symposium to generate ideas from the...
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The inaugural BJGP Research Conference gets off to a flying start
We were thrilled to host the inaugural BJGP Research Conference for primary care and family medicine last month. We had speakers including Prof Helen Stokes-Lampard, Prof Roger Jones, Dr Graham Easton, and Prof Pali Hungin.
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World Down Syndrome Day – improving primary care for everyone
World Down Syndrome Day is a celebration of some remarkable people and their families. They happen to be born with an extra chromosome. BJGP Open has published a paper on the management of long-term conditions for adults with intelllectual disability. It was a mixed methods systematic review from Hanlon and colleagues in Glasgow. It makes for sobering reading.
The BJGP Open paper
Today, BJGP Open published a paper on the management of long-term conditions for adults with intelllectual disability. It was a mixed methods systematic review from Hanlon and colleagues in Glasgow. It makes for sobering reading.
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Top 10 most read BJGP research articles published in 2017
These are the top 10 most read research articles based on full text downloads from bjgp.org in...
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BJGP Open: adapting primary care for migrants
The aim of this paper was to provide some insight into how primary care is managing to offer care to migrants. In particular they were interested in looking at the challenges and the ways in which practices and practitioners were adapting to meet this need.
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Top 10 most read BJGP research articles published in 2016
These are the top 10 most read research articles based on full text downloads from bjgp.org in...
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Happy birthday to the NSPCR
The NIHR School for Primary Care research has celebrated its 10th anniversary. Shortly after the...
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How research is helping with GP wellbeing and informing performance at Feel It Festival
GPs work back-breaking hours, often in isolation. They make hundreds of decisions every day,...
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