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McNair and Hegarty’s systematic review of guidelines for the primary care of lesbian, gay and bisexual people is a very welcome publication. It identifies strengths and weaknesses in existing guidelines and gives clear direction for improving the development and dissemination of future guidelines, in an evidence-based manner. The need for such guidelines is not always understood by healthcare professionals despite the g...
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We are very pleased to note the review published by McNair and Hegarty of the available guidelines for the care of LGB people in primary care, and strongly endorse their call for evidence-based recommendations to be specifically produced for primary care settings. We are particularly pleased to note their suggestion that such guidelines be widely distributed and regularly updated in order to account for the changing s...
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Thank you for your endorsement of our recommendation that evidence- based guidelines for the care of LGB people should be produced specifically for primary care settings. We would add to your list of suitable agencies to develop such guidelines each of the Colleges of General Practice in the countries of interest, aside from the Irish College, whose guidelines were included in our review.
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The findings reported by McNair and Hegarty regarding a paucity of primary care clinical guidelines for LGBT patients are not surprising. LGBT health issues are difficult to study for a multitude of reasons including participant mistrust of the health care setting and health care research, insufficient LGBT research infrastructure and funding opportunities, a small but growing number of LGBT health and public health res...
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A review article that clearly identifies deficiencies in current LGB literature using the validated AGREE tool. The path for further research is now better "signposted" with a major priority - the development of guidelines for improving LGB health in the primary care environment.
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