Our Primary Care Research Briefs provide a succinct digest of work in a quick-to-read format, for GPs, clinicians, health service commissioners and policymakers.
The summaries are developed in collaboration with our partners.
Primary care research
Research Briefing: diagnosis and management problems for patients with hidden heart failure
Findings from four year research programme on heart failure with preserved ejection fraction Half of the one million or so…
This research briefing on kidney cancer screening describes recent work at the University of Cambridge led by Dr Juliet Usher-Smith and…
Research Alert: Improving screening for bowel cancer using risk stratification
Age is the most important risk factor for bowel cancer but many genetic and lifestyle risk factors have been identified.…
Key issues in bereavement care and anticipatory prescribing
Two new research summaries from the Palliative & End of Life Care Group in Cambridge, on anticipatory prescribing and on…
GPs can safely reduce the number of antihypertensive medications taken by some older people without substantial changes to blood pressure…