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MeSH Review:

Community Medicine

Shafir, M.S. et al., McCarthy, M., Hangiandreou, N.J. et al., Lawson, B. et al., Gatherer, A. et al., et al.

Lawson, Putnam, Nicol, Archibald, Mackillop, Conter, Frail, Kampf,

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High impact information on Community Medicine

NHS at 50. Community medicine. National Health Service [1].
The aims of this study were to gain an understanding of the concerns of those in control in Canadian Family Medicine, and to gain an understanding of the experiences of trainees in the traditional postgraduate year 2 (PGY-2) and in a flexible PGY-2 at the University of Toronto (U of T) Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) in 1994 [2].
SETTING: Three family medicine community practice sites in cities in Nova Scotia. PARTICIPANTS: All seniors (aged 65 and older) on the electronic record of each practice site with a physician-confirmed diagnosis of OA (N = 244) [3].
Hand hygiene becomes more important in community medicine not only since antibiotic resistant bacteria such as MRSA spread within the community [4].
In order to gain experience with vendor-supplied picture archive and communication system (PACS) products, a Vantage PACS from Lockheed-Martin was installed in a Mayo community medicine practice in Rochester. This practice produces about 45,000 radiology examinations annually [5].

Associations of Community Medicine with chemical compounds

Dr Alex Gatherer, Oxfordshire AHA(T) area medical officer, with the help of Katrina Bishop and Alexandre Kalache, a clinical lecturer in community medicine at Oxford University, tried to answer these and other questions [6].

Gene context of Community Medicine

Five years' experience of student attachment to a Cape Town general practice as part of a community medicine 'block' is described [7].
The welfare state has arrived and is thriving in Singapore. Mark McCarthy, a senior lecturer in community medicine at University College Hospital Medical School, London, who visited the country recently, gives his impressions of the progress being made in health services, where the emphasis is on prevention [8].

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NHS at 50. Community medicine. National Health Service. Holland, W.W. Lancet (1998) [Pubmed]
Traditional vs. flexible programmes: training in family and community medicine. Shafir, M.S., Wilkins, K. Medical education. (1996) [Pubmed]
Managing osteoarthritis. Medication use among seniors in the community. Lawson, B., Putnam, W., Nicol, K., Archibald, G., Mackillop, J., Conter, H., Frail, D. Canadian family physician Médecin de famille canadien. (2004) [Pubmed]
State-of-the-art hand hygiene in community medicine. Kampf, G. International journal of hygiene and environmental health. (2003) [Pubmed]
Picture archive and communication systems implementation in a community medicine practice. Hangiandreou, N.J., King, B.F., Swenson, A.R., Webbles, W.E., Jorgenson, L.L. Journal of digital imaging : the official journal of the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology. (1997) [Pubmed]
Community hospitals: cornerstone of care for the future health service. Gatherer, A., Bishop, K., Kalache, A. Health and social service journal. (1980) [Pubmed]
Student attachment to a general practice in Cape Town. A report of 5 years' experience. Levenstein, S. S. Afr. Med. J. (1984) [Pubmed]
Keeping disease at bay: Singapore. McCarthy, M. Health and social service journal. (1979) [Pubmed]

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