PURPOSE New approaches to chronic disease management emphasize the need to
improve the delivery of primary care services to meet the needs of chronically ill patients. This …

Objectives: To examine whether adult use of mental health services subsidised by Medicare
varies by measures of socioeconomic and geographic disadvantage in Australia. Design, …

Context A key aim of reforms to primary health care (PHC) in many countries has been to
enhance interprofessional teamwork. However, the impact of these changes on practitioners …

Background Dementia is a growing problem, causing substantial burden for patients, their
families, and society. General practitioners (GPs) play an important role in diagnosing and …

Vitreous and serum were obtained at the time of vitrectomy from 23 diabetic subjects with
proliferative retinopathy and from 8 nondiabetic subjects. The mean concentration of IGF-I in …

A key component in describing forest carbon (C) dynamics is the change in downed dead
wood biomass through time. Specifically, there is a dearth of information regarding the …

Forest understories across the northern United States (US) are a complex of tree seedlings,
endemic forbs, herbs, shrubs, and introduced plant species within a forest structure defined …

Aging is often perceived as a degenerative process resulting from random accrual of cellular
damage over time. Despite this, age can be accurately estimated by epigenetic clocks …

Forest ecosystems are the largest terrestrial carbon sink on earth, with more than half of their
net primary production moving to the soil via the decomposition of litter biomass. Therefore, …

Individuals infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) are at high risk of developing progressive
liver disease, including cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). How HCV infection …