Background. Focus groups have become an important data gathering technique in primary
care research. Objectives. This study provides an integrated review of recent articles that …

Qualitative research, which is primarily inductive and descriptive, provides rich contextual
data to further our understanding of social phenomena. Its value is firmly established in …

OBJECTIVE: To provide Canadian health care workers with evidence-based guidelines for
universal counselling about HIV testing and the offering of such testing to all pregnant …

This study evaluated British Columbian primary care physicians' use of sexually transmitted
disease (STD) and HIV counseling guidelines. The authors sought to assess barriers to …

1Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia;
2Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medicine, and Microbiology & …

Every patient in whom HIV infection has been newly diagnosed should be assessed for the
presence of active TB at the time of diagnosis of HIV. Inquiries should be made about …

OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency with which Hamilton, Ont, general practitioners and
family physicians discussed and offered HIV testing during prenatal care. DESIGN: Cross …

Objectives. To determine physicians' preferred content and format for the Guidelines for Red
Blood Cell and Plasma Transfusion for Adults and Children before development in order to …

Ideally physicians apply critical thinking skills to examination of current data bases in order
to practice evidence based medicine. However many factors appear to work against this …

The authors evaluate obstetricians-gynecologists'(OB-GYNs') anxiety about clinical
uncertainty and patient, physician, and organizational factors associated with their selection …