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General practitioners' reasoning on risk screening and primary prevention of stroke - a focus group study.

Ann-Helen PatomellaGustav MickolsEric AsabaGunnar NilssonCecilia FridénAnders KottorpBo Christer BertilsonKerstin Tham
Published in: BMC family practice (2018)
There is a need for a more proactive, transparent and systematic approach in the distribution of GPs' time and reimbursement of prevention in primary health care. The findings suggest, by developing new methods and approaches such as digital clinical decision-making tools and by implementing inter-professional team-work, the quality of the primary prevention of stroke could be improved.
Keyphrases
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