The Hong Kong Practitioner VOLUME 27 / January 2005

The Hong Kong Practitioner - Title Index 2004

 
A centre of infectious disease control for Hong Kong (P Y Lam) 157

A meta-analysis of observational studies: risk of preserved salted fish in the etiology of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (J Yeung, J L Tang)

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A postgraduate diploma course in community geriatrics for primary care doctors: experience of first three years (T P Lam, T K Kong, F H W Chan, C P Wong) 441
Alzheimer's disease: an outline for clinicians (C W Lo) 460
An appraisal of the calibrated Framingham equation for Chinese - a tool to use in Hong Kong? - Part I (A K L Chan, Y T Wun, W K Lam, L C Y Tsang) 477
An evidence-based approach to managing osteoarthritis in the primary care setting (A Lee, C Tsang, W Wong, S Wong) 457
Breaking bad news: a Chinese perspective (C Y Tse, A M L Chong, S Y Fok) 146
Cancer screening in Australia (V S P Chan) 135
Chemical pathology case conference - liver function tests (R W K Chiu, A Y W Chan, M H M Chan, C W Lam, T W L Mak, A C C Shek, M H L Tai, S Tam) 430
Chronic pain management: a paradigm change (P P Chen, T C M Wong, M C Chu) 277
Clinical Quiz - A woman with scaly scalp lesion and hair loss (R C W Su) 42
Clinical Quiz - A man presenting with multiple brownish facial nodules (T S Au) 94
Clinical Quiz - An immuno-suppressant patient presenting with a rapidly progressive rash (K K Lo) 160
Clinical Quiz - A young man presenting with intensely itchy maculopapular rash (H F Ho) 202
Clinical Quiz - A man presenting with a unilateral palmar eruption (W S Lam) 248
Clinical Quiz - An elderly lady with a pigmented nodule (R C W Su) 290
Clinical Quiz - A lady with a scalp lesion (T S Au) 325
Clinical Quiz - A man presenting with a persistent rash on his leg (K K Lo) 370
Clinical Quiz - A boy presenting with nail deformity (H F Ho) 414
Clinical Quiz - A girl presenting with an asymptomatic neck plaque (W S Lam) 448
Clinical Quiz - A blue nodule on forearm of a female adolescent (R Su) 494
Clinical Quiz - A man presenting with a nodule on his thumb (C Y Leung) 535
Common gynaecological problems in general practice (K D Lam, K B Cheung) 271
Common head and neck malignancies (A C Vlantis) 74
Community services for the elderly - from medical social worker's perspective (B C Y Chan) 228
Comparison of thin-layer Pap test with conventional Pap test in cervical cancer screening in Elderly Health Centres in Hong Kong (R S Y Lee, K S Ho, S Y Lam, W M Chan) 59
Cutaneous manifestations of viral infections (F A Campbell, A Drummond, D T Roberts) 31
Diabetic retinopathy (P S H Li, T H Wong, W W T Tang, J S M Lai) 346
Diagnosis and management of schizophrenia and schizophrenia-like disorders in primary care (K Y Mak) 392
Do trainers agree with trainees on referrals to emergency department? (Y T Wun, T K Wong, D V K Chao) 508
Evidence-based decision making in healthcare: evidence, economics and ethics (J L Tang) 377  
Evidence-based medicine for general practitioners - a tool for lifelong self-directed learning? (A K L Chan) 400
Expectations in consultations (D V K Chao) 209
Flashes, floaters and retinal detachment (W W Lai, D S C Lam) 436
How to advance the development of academic Family Medicine (A Lee) 121
Innovations in general practice training and education - challenges for the 21st century (M R Kidd) 195
Internet - What's in the web for family physicians - clinical tools (A K Y Tang) 93
Internet - What's in the web for family physicians - medical illustrations (A K Y Tang) 201
Internet - What's in the web for family physicians - emergency medicine (A K Y Tang) 289
Internet - What's in the web for family physicians - travel medicine (A K Y Tang) 369
Internet - What's in the web for family physicians - diabetes and endocrinology (A K Y Tang) 447
Internet - What's in the web for family physicians - sports medicine (A K Y Tang) 534
Learning after medical school (T P Lam) 169
Letter to The Editor - Medical education and health care in Hong Kong (P C Y Lee) 214
Management of hyperlipidaemia in elderly (L P Lui, K S Ho) 520
Management of sexual dysfunction in primary care (K Y Mak) 527
Neuromuscular complications of rheumatological diseases (K M Chan, A K C Chan, S L Aaron) 260
Neurophysiology in clinical practice (W Mak, G C Y Fong) 354
New-onset diabetes and antihypertensive drugs: implications for renin- angiotensin system blockade (N N Chan, A P S Kong, J C N Chan) 515
Office based ENT procedures (A C Vlantis, G Soo) 242
Partner abuse (A K Y Cheung) 319
Preventing domestic violence: the role of family physicians in partner abuse (B W K Lau) 297
Prevention is better than cure (D V K Chao) 417
Quality family medicine in a brave new world (M R Kidd) 315
Regulatory assessment of the consultation competence of Family Physicians in Hong Kong (R C Fraser, R S Y Lee, Y K Yiu, C L K Lam, R K McKinley, CPM Van der Vleuten) 5
Research by private family physicians - what are the strengths and how we might overcome the weaknesses? (A A T Chuh, W C W Wong, A Lee) 285
Review of the management of gout in a primary care clinic (K Kung, A Lam, P K T Li) 301
Screening in chronic hepatitis B carriers - a retrospective study in a primary car clinic (K Kung, A Lam, P K T Li) 221
Social work intervention for people with depressive disorder (H M Lo) 486
Stroke prevention in clinical practice for primary care physicians (R T F Cheung) 81
Study on knowledge, attitude and sexual behaviour among the Chinese elderly males in Hong Kong (C C N Chan, K S Ho, L C L Heung, W M Chan) 64
The changing role of visiting medical officer (S L T Tsoi) 409
The concept of continuity and general practice (F Olesen) 329
The diagnosis and management of bipolar affective disorder (manic- depressive disorder) in a primary care setting (K Y Mak) 187
The diagnosis and management of depressive disorders in primary care (K Y Mak) 24
The epidemic of childhood obesity (D Owens) 257
The era of palliative home care (K S Chan, W M Lam, A Thorsen, P S Ko) 151
The family may be the rescue when your heart starts to sink (C L K Lam, W Y Lee) 57
The future of Family Medicine in Hong Kong (D K T Li) 1
The health risks of air pollution (D Owens) 505
The prescription pattern of first-line anti-hypertensives among family medicine trainees in Hong Kong Part 1: in the absence of concomitant cardiovascular risk factors (M C S Wong, R Y Chung) 420
The prevalence of depressive symptoms in a regional geriatric day hospital (K W Wong, R Fung, P T Lam, D V K Chao) 172
The price of cancer screening (C L K Lam) 142
The interesting phenomena of impulse control disorders (K Y Mak) 364
The role of family physicians in suicide prevention (F W S Li) 470
Treatment of Hepatitis B (T K Cheung, C L Lai) 309
Update on the management of childhood wheezing disorders (K K M Lee, G W K Wong) 233
Use of the ankle brachial index to detect asymptomatic atherosclerosis (A C K Lam) 382  
Visiting general out-patient clinic for upper respiratory tract infection: a cross-sectional study of patients' knowledge, consultation behaviour, self-care practice and reasons for consultation (A F Y Tang, D V K Chao) 333
Vocational training in family medicine: A qualitative study of perspectives of trainers in community-based training (J T N Chung, Y T Wun, T P Lam) 181
Will private general practitioners alter their knowledge, attitude and practice towards counselling and performing cervical smears for their patients? (C S Y Chan, J A Dickinson, K Y Choi, A K Y Cheung, W C Lau, C Fabrizio, R K H Chin) 123