British Journal of General Practice

Article	Citations
Implementation of remote consulting in UK primary care following the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods longitudinal study	302
Continuity in general practice as predictor of mortality, acute hospitalisation, and use of out-of-hours care: a registry-based observational study in Norway	135
Impact of multimorbidity on healthcare costs and utilisation: a systematic review of the UK literature	129
Impact of COVID-19 on migrants’ access to primary care and implications for vaccine roll-out: a national qualitative study	93
Transformation of primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic: experiences of healthcare professionals in eight European countries	90
Clinical coding of long COVID in English primary care: a federated analysis of 58 million patient records in situ using OpenSAFELY	83
Recommendations for the recognition, diagnosis, and management of long COVID: a Delphi study	80
Trends and clinical characteristics of COVID-19 vaccine recipients: a federated analysis of 57.9 million patients' primary care records in situ using OpenSAFELY	66
GP wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review	64
Why do GPs rarely do video consultations? qualitative study in UK general practice	60
Comorbidity in chronic kidney disease: a large cross-sectional study of prevalence in Scottish primary care	53
Remote primary care consultations for people living with dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic: experiences of people living with dementia and their carers	53
Unintended consequences of online consultations: a qualitative study in UK primary care	50
Prevalence of burnout among GPs: a systematic review and meta-analysis	46
Antimicrobial stewardship in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based cohort study and interrupted time-series analysis	43
Treatment burden for patients with multimorbidity: cross-sectional study with exploration of a single-item measure	38
Which patients miss appointments with general practice and the reasons why: a systematic review	38
Changing media depictions of remote consulting in COVID-19: analysis of UK newspapers	36
Attitudes of transgender men and non-binary people to cervical screening: a cross-sectional mixed-methods study in the UK	35
Is continuity of primary care declining in England? Practice-level longitudinal study from 2012 to 2017	33
Continuity of GP care for patients with dementia: impact on prescribing and the health of patients	31
Primary care consultation length by deprivation and multimorbidity in England: an observational study using electronic patient records	31
Remote by default general practice: must we, should we, dare we?	30
Promoting physical activity in primary care: a systematic review and meta-analysis	30
Implementing social prescribing in primary care in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation: process evaluation of the ‘Deep End’ community Links Worker Programme	30

Trends in the prescription of drugs used for insomnia: an open-cohort study in Australian general practice, 2011–2018	29
A wake-up call for preconception health: a clinical review	27
Colchicine for COVID-19 in the community (PRINCIPLE): a randomised, controlled, adaptive platform trial	26
Trends in diabetes medication use in Australia, Canada, England, and Scotland: a repeated cross-sectional analysis in primary care	26
Integrating primary care and social services for older adults with multimorbidity: a qualitative study	26
Delivering brief physical activity interventions in primary care: a systematic review	26
Challenges of safeguarding via remote consulting during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative interview study	25
Cancer detection via primary care urgent referral and association with practice characteristics: a retrospective cross-sectional study in England from 2009/2010 to 2018/2019	25
Health professionals’ identified barriers to trans health care: a qualitative interview study	25
OpenSAFELY NHS Service Restoration Observatory 1: primary care clinical activity in England during the first wave of COVID-19	25
Psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on primary care workers: a cross-sectional study	23
Bullying during COVID-19: the impact on child and adolescent health	23
Unintended consequences of patient online access to health records: a qualitative study in UK primary care	22
The Fast Track FIT study: diagnostic accuracy of faecal immunochemical test for haemoglobin in patients with suspected colorectal cancer	21
Impact of severe mental illness on healthcare use and health outcomes for people with type 2 diabetes: a longitudinal observational study in England	21
Changes in patient experience associated with growth and collaboration in general practice: observational study using data from the UK GP Patient Survey	20
Non-speculum sampling approaches for cervical screening in older women: randomised controlled trial	20
Remote primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic for people experiencing homelessness: a qualitative study	20
Prostate-specific antigen testing and opportunistic prostate cancer screening: a cohort study in England, 1998–2017	20
Variability in size and characteristics of primary care networks in England: observational study	19
Navigating possible endometriosis in primary care: a qualitative study of GP perspectives	19
Primary care workforce composition and population, professional, and system outcomes: a retrospective cross-sectional analysis	19
What mechanisms could link GP relational continuity to patient outcomes?	19
Impact of COVID-19 on primary care contacts with children and young people in England: longitudinal trends study 2015–2020	18
Structured medication reviews: origins, implementation, evidence, and prospects	18
Contacts in general practice during the COVID-19 pandemic: a register-based study	18
Chest X-ray sensitivity and lung cancer outcomes: a retrospective observational study	18
CA125 test result, test-to-diagnosis interval, and stage in ovarian cancer at diagnosis: a retrospective cohort study using electronic health records	18
Postural tachycardia syndrome and long COVID: an update	18
Use of methenamine hippurate to prevent urinary tract infections in community adult women: a systematic review and meta-analysis	18
Identifying multimorbidity clusters with the highest primary care use: 15 years of evidence from a multi-ethnic metropolitan population	18
Early implementation of the structured medication review in England: a qualitative study	18
Effectiveness and perceptions of using templates in long-term condition reviews: a systematic synthesis of quantitative and qualitative studies	18
Influence of polypharmacy on patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a retrospective analysis on adverse outcomes in the TOPCAT trial	17
Touch matters: COVID-19, physical examination, and 21st century general practice	17
Long COVID and the importance of the doctor–patient relationship	17
Prevalence and predictors of potentially inappropriate prescribing in middle-aged adults: a repeated cross-sectional study	16
Age, sex, and socioeconomic differences in multimorbidity measured in four ways: UK primary care cross-sectional analysis	16
Collaborative improvement in Scottish GP clusters after the Quality and Outcomes Framework: a qualitative study	16
Adults with intellectual disabilities and mental health disorders in primary care: a scoping review	16
Estimating lung cancer risk from chest X-ray and symptoms: a prospective cohort study	16
Socioeconomic differences in help seeking for colorectal cancer symptoms during COVID-19: a UK-wide qualitative interview study	16
Supporting autistic doctors in primary care: challenging the myths and misconceptions	16
Matching depression management to severity prognosis in primary care: results of the Target-D randomised controlled trial	16
Experiences of general practice care for self-harm: a qualitative study of young people’s perspectives	16
Predictors for inappropriate proton pump inhibitor use: observational study in primary care	16
Constipation in autistic people and people with learning disabilities	16
Identifying how GPs spend their time and the obstacles they face: a mixed-methods study	15
Diagnosing community-acquired pneumonia via a smartphone-based algorithm: a prospective cohort study in primary and acute-care consultations	15
Primary care transformation in Scotland: qualitative evaluation of the views of national senior stakeholders and cluster quality leads	15

Pre-diagnostic clinical features and blood tests in patients with colorectal cancer: a retrospective linked-data study	15
GP workforce crisis: what can we do now?	14
Prevalence of cancer risk factors among transgender and gender diverse individuals: a cross-sectional analysis using UK primary care data	14
Implementing advance care planning in heart failure: a qualitative study of primary healthcare professionals	14
Factors affecting the documentation of spoken safety-netting advice in routine GP consultations: a cross-sectional study	14
Trends and variation in urgent referrals for suspected cancer 2009/2010–2019/2020	14
Identifying opportunities for timely diagnosis of bladder and renal cancer via abnormal blood tests: a longitudinal linked data study	14
Predicting asthma-related crisis events using routine electronic healthcare data: a quantitative database analysis study	14
Effect of weight loss on cardiometabolic risk: observational analysis of two randomised controlled trials of community weight-loss programmes	14
Adverse drug reactions and associated patient characteristics in older community-dwelling adults: a 6-year prospective cohort study	13
Predicting the risk of prostate cancer in asymptomatic men: a cohort study to develop and validate a novel algorithm	13
GPs’ use of gut feelings when assessing cancer risk: a qualitative study in UK primary care	13
Rise in prescribing for anxiety in UK primary care between 2003 and 2018: a population-based cohort study using Clinical Practice Research Datalink	13
Association of multimorbidity with higher levels of urinary incontinence: a cross-sectional study of 23 089 individuals aged ≥15 years residing in Spain	13
COVID-19 vaccination programme: a central role for primary care	13
Clinical prediction tools to identify patients at highest risk of myeloma in primary care: a retrospective open cohort study	13
Diagnosing colorectal cancer in primary care: cohort study in Sweden of qualitative faecal immunochemical tests, haemoglobin levels, and platelet counts	13
Prevalence of erectile dysfunction in male survivors of cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies	13
Long-term antidepressant use in general practice: a qualitative study of GPs’ views on discontinuation	13
Addressing language as a barrier to healthcare access and quality	13
NHS Health Checks: an observational study of equity and outcomes 2009–2017	13
Barriers to postpartum diabetes screening: a qualitative synthesis of clinicians’ views	13
Measuring the complexity of general practice consultations: a Delphi and cross-sectional study in English primary care	13
Neuromuscular exercise for chronic musculoskeletal pain in older people: a randomised controlled trial in primary care in Hong Kong	12
Supporting patients with long COVID return to work	12
Experience of implementing and delivering group consultations in UK general practice: a qualitative study	12
Non-specific symptoms-based pathways for diagnosing less common cancers in primary care: a service evaluation	12
The impact of remote care approaches on continuity in primary care: a mixed-studies systematic review	12
Exemplary medical care or Trojan horse? An analysis of the ‘lifestyle medicine’ movement	12
Development of a modified Cambridge Multimorbidity Score for use with SNOMED CT: an observational English primary care sentinel network study	12
Locum doctor use in English general practice: analysis of routinely collected workforce data 2017–2020	12
Factors affecting the decision to investigate older adults with potential cancer symptoms: a systematic review	12
Helping GPs to diagnose children’s cancer	12
Training needs for staff providing remote services in general practice: a mixed-methods study	12
Variation in suspected cancer referral pathways in primary care: comparative analysis across the International Benchmarking Cancer Partnership	11
Potential impact of NICE guidelines on referrals from primary care to nephrology: a primary care database and prospective research study	11
Drugs for chronic pain	11
Understanding the management of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a qualitative multiperspective study	11
Primary care networks: are they fit for the future?	11
Factors influencing symptom appraisal and help-seeking of older adults with possible cancer: a mixed-methods systematic review	11
Behaviour change techniques in personalised care planning for older people: a systematic review	11
Supporting families managing childhood eczema: developing and optimising eczema care online using qualitative research	11
Out-of-hours services and end-of-life hospital admissions: a complex intervention systematic review and narrative synthesis	11
Oral ondansetron for paediatric gastroenteritis in primary care: a randomised controlled trial	11
Post-bariatric surgery nutritional follow-up in primary care: a population-based cohort study	11
Resident and early-career family physicians’ focused practice choices in Canada: a qualitative study	11
How to improve practice by means of the Audit Project Odense method	11
Accessing primary care and the importance of ‘human fit’: a qualitative participatory case study	11
Primary care contacts, continuity, identification of palliative care needs, and hospital use: a population-based cohort study in people dying with dementia	11
General practice in crisis: stop skinning the cat	11
Role of locum GPs in antibiotic prescribing and stewardship: a mixed-methods study	11
Inappropriate direct oral anticoagulant prescriptions in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation: cross-sectional analysis of the French CACAO cohort study in primary care	10
A crisis of identity: what is the essence of general practice?	10
Addressing the elephant in the room: COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Black and Asian communities	10
Association of prior lymphopenia with mortality in pneumonia: a cohort study in UK primary care	10
Domestic abuse among female doctors: thematic analysis of qualitative interviews in the UK	10
Strengthening the integration of primary care in pandemic response plans: a qualitative interview study of Canadian family physicians	10
Role of the prescriber in supporting patients to discontinue benzodiazepines: a qualitative study	10
Inequalities in health-related quality of life: repeated cross-sectional study of trends in general practice survey data	10
Identifying patients at risk of psychosis: a qualitative study of GP views in South West England	10
No association between breast pain and breast cancer: a prospective cohort study of 10 830 symptomatic women presenting to a breast cancer diagnostic clinic	10
Effectiveness of preconception interventions in primary care: a systematic review	10
Modernising continuity: a new conceptual framework	10
Withdrawing from SSRI antidepressants: advice for primary care	10
Multicomponent interventions for enhancing primary care: a systematic review	9
Rapid Diagnostic Centres and early cancer diagnosis	9
Use of a personalised depression intervention in primary care to prevent anxiety: a secondary study of a cluster randomised trial	9
Point-of-care testing for respiratory infections during and after COVID-19	9
Shared decision making between older people with multimorbidity and GPs: a qualitative study	9
National Cancer Diagnosis Audits for England 2018 versus 2014: a comparative analysis	9
Effect of the OPTIMAL programme on self-management of multimorbidity in primary care: a randomised controlled trial	9
The readability of general practice websites: a cross-sectional analysis of all general practice websites in Scotland	9
Vaccination roll-out: a time to develop and maintain trust in science and health care	9
Change in treatment burden among people with multimorbidity: a follow-up survey	9
Continuity of care in diverse ethnic groups: a general practice record study in England	9
Opioid reduction for patients with chronic pain in primary care: systematic review	9
The Global Primary Care Crisis	9
Prescribing of long-term antibiotics to adolescents in primary care: a retrospective cohort study	9
How parents and children evaluate emollients for childhood eczema: a qualitative study	9
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on incidence of long-term conditions in Wales: a population data linkage study using primary and secondary care health records	9

Anxiety problems in children and adolescents: a population-based cohort study on incidence and management in Dutch primary care	9
The professional resilience of mid-career GPs in the UK: a qualitative study	8
General practice in the years ahead: relationships will matter more than ever	8
Patient–clinician communication research for 21st century health care	8
Focused action is required to protect ethnic minority populations from COVID-19 post-lockdown	8
Improving GP registration and access for migrant health	8
Measuring continuity of care in general practice: a comparison of two methods using routinely collected data	8
Transgender health care in primary care	8
Mapping opportunities for the earlier diagnosis of psoriasis in primary care settings in the UK: results from two matched case–control studies	8
Strategies to reduce the use of low-value medical tests in primary care: a systematic review	8
Digital health in primary care: risks and recommendations	8
GPs’ perspectives on acne management in primary care: a qualitative interview study	8
Still ‘being bothered about Billy’: managing the physical health of people with severe mental illness	8
Spirometry services in England post-pandemic and the potential role of AI support software: a qualitative study of challenges and opportunities	8
Medical education and war in Ukraine	8
Nortriptyline for pain in knee osteoarthritis: a double-blind randomised controlled trial in New Zealand general practice	8
GPs’ and patients’ views on the value of diagnosing anxiety disorders in primary care: a qualitative interview study	8
War in Ukraine: the impacts on child health	8
Long COVID in children: the perspectives of parents and children need to be heard	8
Urine collection devices to reduce contamination in urine samples for diagnosis of uncomplicated UTI: a single-blind randomised controlled trial in primary care	8
Potentially inappropriate primary care prescribing in people with chronic kidney disease: a cross-sectional analysis of a large population cohort	8
Identifying symptoms associated with diagnosis of pancreatic exocrine and neuroendocrine neoplasms: a nested case-control study of the UK primary care population	8
Providing responsive primary care for Ukrainian refugees	8
Accuracy of the NICE traffic light system in children presenting to general practice: a retrospective cohort study	8
Perimenopause and/or menopause help-seeking among women from ethnic minorities: a qualitative study of primary care practitioners experiences	8
Non-antibiotic treatment of acute urinary tract infection in primary care: a qualitative study	8
Recognising and bearing the burden of long COVID-related disability	8
The cost of living crisis: how can we tackle fuel poverty and food insecurity in practice?	8
Underserved Deep End populations: a critical analysis addressing the power imbalance in research	8
The tapestry of reflux syndromes: translating new insight into clinical practice	8
Impact of physician empathy on patient outcomes: a gender analysis	8
‘Hidden’ no more: the real work of the ‘part-time’ GPs working full-time hours	8
Regional lymphadenopathy following COVID-19 vaccination: considerations for primary care management	7
General practice and patient characteristics associated with personal continuity: a mixed-methods study	7
The workforce crisis in general practice	7
Pulse oximetry in primary care: factors affecting accuracy and interpretation	7
Long COVID: supporting people through the quagmire	7
Association between oral anticoagulants and COVID-19-related outcomes: a population-based cohort study	7
Persistently normal blood tests in patients taking methotrexate for RA or azathioprine for IBD: a retrospective cohort study	7
Community diagnostic centres: bringing diagnostics closer to home	7
Advance care planning in primary care for patients with gastrointestinal cancer: feasibility randomised trial	7
Timing of GP end-of-life recognition in people aged ≥75 years: retrospective cohort study using data from primary healthcare records in England	7
Young people who have fallen through the mental health transition gap: a qualitative study on primary care support	7
Associations with antibiotic prescribing for acute exacerbation of COPD in primary care: secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial	7
Reducing short-acting beta-agonist overprescribing in asthma: lessons from a quality-improvement prescribing project in East London	7
Change in glomerular filtration rate over time in the Oxford Renal Cohort Study: observational study	7
Reducing missed appointments in general practice: evaluation of a quality improvement programme in East London	7
Primary care blood tests before cancer diagnosis: National Cancer Diagnosis Audit data	7
Managing lower urinary tract symptoms in primary care: qualitative study of GPs’ and patients’ experiences	7
Orthopaedic corticosteroid injections and risk of acute coronary syndrome: a cohort study	7
Self-ageism among older rural people	7
Holistic management of symptomatic reflux: rising to the challenge of proton pump inhibitor overuse	7
Primary care staff’s views and experience of patients’ online access to their electronic health record: a qualitative exploration	7
Trends and clinical characteristics of COVID-19 vaccine recipients: a federated analysis of 57.9 million patients’ primary care records in situ using OpenSAFELY	7
Diagnosing hypertension in primary care: a retrospective cohort study to investigate the importance of night-time blood pressure assessment	7
Exploring commissioners’ understandings of early primary care network development: qualitative interview study	7
General practice responses to opioid prescribing feedback: a qualitative process evaluation	7
GPs’ and pharmacists’ views of integrating pharmacists into general practices: a qualitative study	7
parkrun and the promotion of physical activity: insights for primary care clinicians from an online survey	7
Are more GPs associated with a reduction in emergency hospital admissions? A quantitative study on GP referral in England	7
Emotional distress, anxiety, and depression in South Asians with long-term conditions: a qualitative systematic review	7
Tackling the complexity of gender bias in primary care	7
Antibiotics versus no treatment for asymptomatic bacteriuria in residents of aged care facilities: a systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Liver disease management as routine work in primary care: a qualitative interview study to guide implementation	7
Implementing point-of-care CRP testing for better diagnosis of acute respiratory infections	7
Equity and the funding of Primary Care Networks	7
Primary care funding entrenches health inequalities: time for a rethink	6
Suicide prevention and COVID-19: the role of primary care during the pandemic and beyond	6
UK newspapers ‘on the warpath’: media analysis of general practice remote consulting in 2021	6
Was enough, and is enough, being done to protect the primary care workforce from COVID-19?	6
Finding meaning in the consultation: working in the hermeneutic window	6
Is proactive frailty identification a good idea? A qualitative interview study	6
The health system response to long COVID in England — at a critical juncture	6
Finding meaning in the consultation: supporting the hermeneutic window in practice	6
Long COVID in general practice: an analysis of the equity of NHS England’s enhanced service specification	6
Facilitating care: a biopsychosocial perspective on long COVID	6
Promoting physical activity with self-management support for those with multimorbidity: a randomised controlled trial	6
Implementing video group consultations in general practice during COVID-19: a qualitative study	6
The Colorectal cancer RISk Prediction (CRISP) trial: a randomised controlled trial of a decision support tool for risk-stratified colorectal cancer screening	6
Chronic care services and variation between Danish general practices: a nationwide cohort study	6
OpenSAFELY NHS Service Restoration Observatory 2: changes in primary care clinical activity in England during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Targeted encouragement of GP consultations for possible cancer symptoms: a randomised controlled trial	6
Integrating public health and primary care: the response of six Asia–Pacific countries to the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Risk prediction models for symptomatic patients with bladder and kidney cancer: a systematic review	6
Diagnostic delays for breathlessness in primary care: a qualitative study to investigate current care and inform future pathways	6
Sociodemographic variations in the uptake of faecal immunochemical tests in primary care: a retrospective study	6
Continuity of GP care: using personal lists in general practice	6
Implications of the changes to patient online records access in English primary care	6
Integrated care pathways: a new approach for integrated care systems	6
Prognostic factors for persistent fatigue after COVID-19: a prospective matched cohort study in primary care	6
Tapering antidepressants: why do tens of thousands turn to Facebook groups for support?	6
Academic primary care: challenges and opportunities	6
Medical treatment for heavy menstrual bleeding in primary care: 10-year data from the ECLIPSE trial	6
Patient-centred innovation for multimorbidity care: a mixed-methods, randomised trial and qualitative study of the patients’ experience	6
The power of personal care: the value of the patient–GP consultation	6