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Can Quit Practice: a comprehensive smoking cessation programme for the general practice teamDeborah McLeod
Department of General Practice, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wellington South, New Zealand
N Z Med J 118:U1415. 2005..To develop, implement, and evaluate a programme of training and support for smoking cessation provision in general practice...- The midwife's role in facilitating smoking behaviour change during pregnancyDeborah McLeod
Department of General Practice, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, PO Box 7343, Wellington South, New Zealand
Midwifery 19:285-97. 2003..To explore the midwife's role in providing education and support for changes in smoking behaviour during usual primary maternity care... - Can support and education for smoking cessation and reduction be provided effectively by midwives within primary maternity care?Deborah McLeod
Department of General Practice, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, P O Box 7343, Wellington South, New Zealand
Midwifery 20:37-50. 2004..To test the hypothesis that appropriate interventions delivered by midwives within usual primary maternity care, can assist women to stop or reduce the amount they smoke and facilitate longer duration of breast feeding... - Factors that influence changes in smoking behaviour during pregnancyDeborah McLeod
General Practice Department, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand
N Z Med J 116:U418. 2003..This study explored characteristics of women who continue to smoke beyond the first trimester of pregnancy... - Clinicians' reported use of clinical priority assessment criteria and their attitudes to prioritization for elective surgery: a cross-sectional surveyDeborah McLeod
Department of General Practice, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand
ANZ J Surg 74:1003-9. 2004..To explore the attitudes of clinicians working in New Zealand publicly funded hospitals towards prioritizing patients for elective surgery, and their reported use of clinical priority assessment criteria (CPAC)... - Smoking cessation in New Zealand: education and resources for use by midwives for women who smoke during pregnancySusan Pullon
Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, New Zealand
Health Promot Int 18:315-25. 2003..The pregnancy-specific resources developed for women who smoke played an important part in helping midwives deliver their health promotion messages more effectively... - Equity of access to elective surgery: reflections from NZ cliniciansDeborah McLeod
Department of General Practice, Wellington School of Medicine, University of Otago, PO Box 7343, Wellington South, New Zealand
J Health Serv Res Policy 9:41-7. 2004.... - The treatment of common mental health problems in general practiceJohn Bushnell
University of Otago at Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand
Fam Pract 23:53-9. 2006.... - Use of, and attitudes to, clinical priority assessment criteria in elective surgery in New ZealandDeborah McLeod
Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand
J Health Serv Res Policy 9:91-9. 2004..This highlights the difficulties in developing and implementing CPAC and suggests that further development is difficult in the absence of evidence to identify patients who will benefit the most from surgery... - Do patients want to disclose psychological problems to GPs?John Bushnell
Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, New Zealand
Fam Pract 22:631-7. 2005..The extent to which patients consider their primary care team as relevant to their mental health problems needs to be explored... - New Zealand general practitioners' non-urgent referrals to surgeons: who and why?Antony Raymont
Health Services Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand
N Z Med J 121:57-64. 2008..To describe the clinical and demographic characteristics of patients referred by general practitioners (GPs) to both public and private sectors for non-urgent surgical assessment... - 'It puts things out of your control': fear of consequences as a barrier to patient disclosure of mental health issues to general practitionersKevin Dew
Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington South, Wellington, New Zealand
Sociol Health Illn 29:1059-74. 2007..The research reported here suggests that trust in a range of institutions and agencies, not just in the individual practitioner, would need to be achieved for the GP to be the preferred point of contact... - Smoking cessation and nicotine replacement therapy in current primary maternity careSusan Pullon
Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, New Zealand
Aust Fam Physician 33:94-6. 2004..To determine attitudes, activity and confidence among general practitioners and midwives about smoking cessation practice, and use of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) during pregnancy and breastfeeding... - Genetic testing in New Zealand: the role of the general practitionerSonya Morgan
Department of General Practice, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Wellington
N Z Med J 117:U1178. 2004.... - Explicit rationing of elective services: implementing the New Zealand reformsKevin Dew
Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Wellington South, New Zealand
Health Policy 74:1-12. 2005..For many surgical specialties implicit rationing will continue to play a major part in determining access to surgery unless validated and reliable CPAC tools can be developed... - "This glorious twilight zone of uncertainty": mental health consultations in general practice in New ZealandKevin Dew
Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, P O Box 7343, Wellington South, New Zealand
Soc Sci Med 61:1189-200. 2005..The paper concludes by offering a framework for the mental health consultation that illustrates the systemic issues that GPs consider when making decisions about mental health consultations... - Factors influencing alcohol consumption during pregnancy and after giving birthDeborah McLeod
General Practice Department, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand
N Z Med J 115:U29. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: Approximately a quarter of women continue to drink alcohol during pregnancy. Health education aiming to reduce alcohol consumption in pregnancy needs to take into account the profile of women who drink during pregnancy... - Factors influencing continuation of breastfeeding in a cohort of womenDeborah McLeod
Department at the Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Wellington South, New Zealand
J Hum Lact 18:335-43. 2002..Improvements in prenatal education about breastfeeding and management of breastfeeding problems are likely to increase breastfeeding duration... - Clinical practice guidelines' development and use in New Zealand: an evolving processEileen McKinlay
Department of General Practice, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Otago University, Wellington, New Zealand
N Z Med J 117:U999. 2004..This study explores the use of evidence-based guidelines by New Zealand general practitioners, and describes strategies developed to overcome identified barriers in the New Zealand setting... - "What sort of health promotion are you talking about?": a discourse analysis of the talk of general practitionersEileen McKinlay
Department of General Practice, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Otago University, P O Box 7343, Wellington South, New Zealand
Soc Sci Med 60:1099-106. 2005..In the current climate general practitioners are uncertain, to the point of ambivalence, about health promotion in their work. Further work will be required to ensure this ambivalence does not result in covert resistance... - Mystery shopping in health service evaluationHelen Moriarty
Department of General Practice, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Science, University of Otago, New Zealand
Br J Gen Pract 53:942-6. 2003..Evaluation of patient satisfaction with services is not sufficient alone to evaluate safety... - The Ottawa ankle rules for the use of diagnostic X-ray in after hours medical centres in New ZealandSimon Wynn-Thomas
Department of General Practice, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences
N Z Med J 115:U184. 2002..3). CONCLUSIONS: The OAR are valid in a New Zealand primary care setting. Further implementation of the rules would result in some reduction of X-rays ordered for ankle injuries, but less than the reduction found in previous studies... - Changes in use of hormone replacement therapy after the report from the Women's Health Initiative: cross sectional survey of usersBeverley Lawton
Department of General Practice, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, PO Box 7343, Wellington South, New Zealand
BMJ 327:845-6. 2003 - Screening for prostate cancer: a survey of New Zealand general practitionersJohn Durham
Ora Toa Medical Centre, Porirua, New Zealand
N Z Med J 116:U476. 2003..To determine the views of general practitioners (GPs) in relation to screening for prostate cancer...