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| J FurlerSummaryAffiliation: University of Melbourne Country: Australia Publications
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The "cost" of treating to target: cross-sectional analysis of patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes in Australian general practiceJohn Furler
Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
BMC Fam Pract 14:32. 2013....- Participant demographics reported in "Table 1" of randomised controlled trials: a case of "inverse evidence"?John Furler
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, 200 Berkeley St, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia
Int J Equity Health 11:14. 2012..We explored how this is documented in reports of RCTs in four major general medical journals... - Patient Engagement and Coaching for Health: The PEACH study--a cluster randomised controlled trial using the telephone to coach people with type 2 diabetes to engage with their GPs to improve diabetes care: a study protocolDoris Young
Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
BMC Fam Pract 8:20. 2007..This paper describes our study protocol, which aims to test whether goal focused telephone coaching in T2D can improve diabetes control and reduce the treatment gap between guideline based standards and actual clinical practice... - Quit in general practice: a cluster randomised trial of enhanced in-practice support for smoking cessationNicholas Zwar
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
BMC Fam Pract 11:59. 2010..This study will test the uptake and effectiveness of a flexible package of smoking cessation support provided primarily by the practice nurse (PN) and tailored to meet the needs of a diversity of patients... - The ethics of everyday practice in primary medical care: responding to social health inequitiesJohn S Furler
Primary Care Research Unit, The Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne, 200 Berkeley St, Carlton, VIC Australia 3053
Philos Ethics Humanit Med 5:6. 2010..This paper draws on a study that explored how doctors and their professional associations ought to respond to the issue of social health inequities... - The emotional context of self-management in chronic illness: A qualitative study of the role of health professional support in the self-management of type 2 diabetesJohn Furler
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Australia
BMC Health Serv Res 8:214. 2008..This study explores the perceptions of people with type 2 diabetes about their self-management strategies and how relationships with health professionals may support this... - Leaders, leadership and future primary care clinical researchJohn Furler
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
BMC Fam Pract 9:52. 2008..To meet the increasing demands being made of it, primary care needs its own thriving research culture and knowledge base... - Managing depression among ethnic communities: a qualitative studyJohn Furler
Primary Care Research Unit, Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne, 200 Berkeley Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053
Ann Fam Med 8:231-6. 2010..This study explores the complexities of this work through a study of how family physicians experience working with different ethnic minority communities in recognizing, understanding, and caring for patients with depression... - Health inequalities, physician citizens and professional medical associations: an Australian case studyJohn Furler
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Australia
BMC Med 5:23. 2007..Our aim was to explore the usefulness of Gruen's model of physician responsibility in defining how professional medical colleges and associations should lead the profession in responding to socioeconomic health inequalities... 
Social determinants of health and health inequalities: what role for general practice?John Furler
Department of General Practice and Public Health, University of Melbourne, Victoria
Health Promot J Austr 17:264-5. 2006..Debating and reflecting on the values underpinning relations between GP and patient may help challenge and illuminate wider inequitable processes in society that sustain inequalities in health...- Prevention and socioeconomic disadvantageJohn Furler
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Victoria
Aust Fam Physician 34:821-4. 2005..in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities, suggesting that preventive activity may be particularly important for these groups; but what does that mean for general practitioners working with individual patients in their practice?.. - Insulin in general practice - barriers and enablers for timely initiationJohn Furler
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Victoria
Aust Fam Physician 40:617-21. 2011..However, initiating insulin is often delayed in general practice. This study explores barriers and enablers to insulin initiation in general practice... - Do divisions of general practice have a role in and the capacity to tackle health inequalities?J Furler
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Victoria
Aust Fam Physician 31:681-3. 2002..Any focus on health outcomes needs to consider what general practice and Divisions can do to reduce inequalities in health outcomes... - Mental health - cultural competenceJohn Furler
Primary Care Research Unit, Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Aust Fam Physician 39:206-8. 2010..Depression, and its associated anxiety, is very common in the community and frequently managed in general practice. Yet it remains a problematic concept. Differing views of depression influence both clinical practice and research... - A randomised control trial of a self-management program for people with a chronic illness from Vietnamese, Chinese, Italian and Greek backgroundsHal Swerissen
Australian Institute for Primary Care, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
Patient Educ Couns 64:360-8. 2006..This study investigated the effectiveness of the Chronic Disease Self-management Program (CDSMP) when delivered to for people from Vietnamese, Chinese, Italian and Greek backgrounds living in Victoria, Australia... - Health inequalities in general practiceJohn Furler
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Victoria
Aust Fam Physician 32:47-50. 2003..Divisions are important to this work. The profession also has an important role in advocating on behalf of disadvantaged communities, and joining with other health workers and professions in doing so... - Primary care funding and organisational policy options and implications: a narrative review of evidence from five comparator countriesLucio Naccarella
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Med J Aust 188:S73-6. 2008..To review innovative models of primary care in different countries in order to identify potential mechanisms for reforming primary care policy in Australia... - Patient social and economic circumstances--GP perceptions and their influence on managementJohn Furler
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Victoria
Aust Fam Physician 34:189-92. 2005..Socioeconomic status (SES) is a major determinant of health. There is little research on if or how general practitioners assess this in individual patients and use it in their clinical practice... 
Negotiations of distress between East Timorese and Vietnamese refugees and their family doctors in MelbourneRenata Kokanovic
Department of Sociology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Sociol Health Illn 32:511-27. 2010....- The politics of conducting research on depression in a cross-cultural contextRenata Kokanovic
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Qual Health Res 19:708-17. 2009.... - National Heart Foundation of Australia and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand: position statement on lipid management--2005Andrew Tonkin
Heart Lung Circ 14:275-91. 2005 - How can primary care increase equity in health?Mark Harris
School of Community Medicine, University of New South Wales
N S W Public Health Bull 13:35-8. 2002 - UK health inequalities: the class system is alive and wellJohn Furler
Med J Aust 181:583-4. 2004