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Towards consensus

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted global healthcare systems, leading to challenges in managing Long COVID. Variations in definitions and diagnostic criteria across Europe hinder recognition and treatment efforts. This study aims to analyse and compare the definitions of Long COVID used in 34 European countries. METHODS: A retrospective descriptive study was conducted involving key inf...

Identifying essential COVID-19 indicators for primary healthcare through Delphi...

© The Author(s) 2025. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association.; BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the essential role of primary healthcare (PHC) in epidemiological surveillance and public health decision-making. Across Europe, the integration of electronic health records (EHRs) and the sentinel networks have been pivotal in monitoring COVID-19. How...

Prescriptions of Essentially Placebo Treatments Among General Practitioners in ...

Importance: General practitioners (GPs) sometimes initiate a treatment despite not expecting it to improve patients' symptoms by any physiological mechanism. These essentially placebo treatments are ethically controversial, and their frequency is unclear. They involve risks for patients, but to estimate these, more data are needed. Objective: To develop a more precise overview of the rate at which GPs prescribe...

Exploring the accessibility of primary health care data in Europe's COVID-19 re...

Funding Information: We would like to thank the health professionals who contributed to treat so many COVID-19 patients during the pandemic. semFYC, EGPRN, WONCA Europe, WONCA World support the need of publicly provided by countries consistent, coordinated and reliable information regarding PHC activity during COVID-19 pandemic. The participants of Project 1 will be considered as collaborators of the project. F...

Diverse roles of Primary Health Care in COVID-19 vaccination across 28 European...

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 vaccination campaign in several European countries involved collaboration between public health and Primary Health Care (PHC). OBJECTIVE: To highlight the role of PHC professionals in the COVID-19 vaccination rollout, specifically in terms of vaccine administration, communication and contributing to vaccination population coverage. METHODS: A descriptive retrospective study of the COVID...

Clinical pathway of COVID-19 patients in primary health care in 30 European cou...

BACKGROUND: Most COVID-19 patients were treated in primary health care (PHC) in Europe. OBJECTIVES: To demonstrate the scope of PHC workflow during the COVID-19 pandemic emphasising similarities and differences of patient's clinical pathways in Europe. METHODS: Descriptive, cross-sectional study with data acquired through a semi-structured questionnaire in PHC in 30 European countries, created ad hoc and agreed...

The role of primary health care in long-term care facilities during the COVID-1...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Primary health care (PHC) supported long-term care facilities (LTCFs) in attending COVID-19 patients. The aim of this study is to describe the role of PHC in LTCFs in Europe during the early phase of the pandemic. METHODS: Retrospective descriptive study from 30 European countries using data from September 2020 collected with an ad hoc semi-structured questionnaire. Related variables are SAR...

Intermediate care in caring for dementia, the point of view of general practiti...

Funding Information: This study received a European General Practice Research Network (EGPRN) Grant (www.egprn.org) Issue no: 2019/003. Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2022 Dibao-Dina, Oger, Foley, Torzsa, Lazic, Kreitmayer Peštiae, Adler, Kareli, Mallen, Heaster, Dumitra, Kurpas, Viegas, Giezendanner, Tkachenko, De Lepeleire, Falanga, Missiou, Jennings and Petrazzuoli.; Background: Intermediate care is often ...

General practitioners’ deprescribing decisions in older adults with polypharmacy

Funding: The work of Katharina Tabea Jungo was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) (NFP 407440_167465, PI Prof. Streit) and the work of Zsofia Rozsnyai by the Swiss Society of General Internal Medicine (SGAIM) Foundation (PI Prof. Streit). The SGAIM Foundation reviewed the study protocol but did not give us feedback or help usplan, conduct, interpret results, or write this manuscript. The ...

Burden of cardiovascular disease across 29 countries and GPs' decision to treat...