Quality in Primary Care Open Access

Editorial

Leadership, organisational culture and the continuing cultural divide in UK health services

• A Niroshan Siriwardena

Guest Editorial

Shifting interventions from specialist to general practitioner is not new. But how realistic is it?

• Patricia Wilkie

Research Paper

Measures of quality, costs and equity in primary health care: instruments developed to analyse and compare primary health care in 35 countries

• Sara Willems, Peter P Groenewegen, Willemijn LA Scha? fer, Wienke GW Boerma, Dionne S Kringos, Evelyne De Ryck, Stefan Gre? and Stephanie Heinemann, Anna Maria Murante, Danica Rotar-Pavlic, Franc? ois G Schellevis, Chiara Seghieri, Michael J Van den Berg

Research Paper

Are patients’ preferences for shifting services from medical specialists to general practitioners related to the type of medical intervention?

• Peter P Groenewegen, Leti van Bodegom-Vos, Judith D de Jong, Peter Spreeuwenberg, Emile C Curfs

Research Paper

Should there be a Quality and Outcomes Framework domain for osteoarthritis? A cross-sectional survey in general practice

• Lorna E Clarson, Barbara I Nicholl, Annette Bishop, John Edwards, Rebecca Daniel, Christian Mallen

Research Paper

How physician and community pharmacist perceptions of the community pharmacist role in Australian primary care influence the quality of collaborative chronic disease management

• Allison Rieck, Simone Pettigrew

Research Paper

Back pain management in primary care: development and validity of the Patients’ and Doctors’ Expectations Questionnaire

• Ehab E Georgy, Eloise CJ Carr, Alan C Breen DC

Quality Improvement Report

Frameworks for improvement: clinical audit, the plan–do–study–act cycle and significant event audit

• A Niroshan Siriwardena, Steve Gillam

Quality Improvement Report

Screening for atrial fibrillation in patients aged 65 years or over attending annual flu vaccination clinics at a single general practice

• GC Rhys, MF Azhar, A Foster