The European Journal of General Practice (EJGP) is the official journal of WONCA Europe. It is an Open Access, international, peer-reviewed scientific journal, and is published online (one issue per year) and in print (end-of-year book).

The EJGP publishes original research papers, review articles and clinical case reports on all aspects of primary care medicine (family medicine, general practice), providing new knowledge on medical decision-making, healthcare delivery, medical education, and research methodology.

Areas covered include primary care epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis, pharmacotherapy, non-drug interventions, multi- and comorbidity, palliative care, shared decision making, inter-professional collaboration, quality and safety, training and teaching, and quantitative and qualitative research methods. See here for more information.

Latest articles

A 'special issue on COVID-19'. Fourteen primary care publications with implications for practice, teaching, and research

Shlomo Vinker, Adam Windak, Jelle Stoffers

Published:

07 Jun 2023

What did the EJGP do well in 2022, and What is the Journal’s plan?

Jelle Stoffers

Published:

05 Jun 2023

Fear of COVID-19 among patients with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection: A cross-sectional study in Estonian family practices

Amanda Soomägi, Tatjana Meister, Sigrid Vorobjov, Kadri Suija, Ruth Kalda, Anneli Uusküla

Published:

01 Jun 2023

The experiences of patients ill with COVID-19-like symptoms and the role of testing for SARS-CoV-2 in supporting them: A qualitative study in eight European countries during the first wave of the pandemic

Melanie E. Hoste, Marta Wanat, Nina Gobat, Marilena Anastasaki, Femke Böhmer, Sławomir Chlabicz, Annelies Colliers, Karen Farrell, Maria-Nefeli Karkana, John Kinsman, Christos Lionis, Ludmila Marcinowicz, Katrin Reinhardt, Ingmarie Skoglund, Pär-Daniel Sundvall, Akke Vellinga, Herman Goossens, Christopher C. Butler, Alike van der Velden, Sarah Tonkin-Crine, Sibyl Anthierens

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30 May 2023

Post-intensive care syndrome in primary care: The development of new diseases and primary care services utilisation – a prospective cohort study

Dries van Sleeuwen, Sabine de Man, Marieke Zegers, Reinier Akkermans, Michael Ricking, Marco Peters, Mark van den Boogaard, Floris A. van de Laar

Published:

30 May 2023

Development and internal validation of an instrument to measure the motivation of residents for family medicine

Nikolaos Sapoutzis, Antonius Schneider, Tom Brandhuber, Pascal O. Berberat, Marjo Wijnen-Meijer

Published:

25 May 2023

Research on integrated community care: Focus on general practitioners, patients and the population. Selected abstracts from the 95th EGPRN conference Antwerp, Belgium, 20–23 October 2022

Published:

09 May 2023

What influences on their professional development do general practice trainees report from their hospital placements? A qualitative study

Joanna Peart, Nele R. Michels, Karena Hanley, Cian Dolan, Julie Luyckx, Valerie Tanghe, Emma Peeters, Milda Burneikaite, Sonata Varvuolyte, Vesna Homar, Lucija Galič, Kamala Klobučar Kragelj, Geoff McCoombe, Nynke Scherpbier

Published:

03 May 2023

Managing children with daytime urinary incontinence: a survey of Dutch general practitioners

Antal P. Oldenhof, J. Marleen Linde, Ilse Hofmeester, Martijn G. Steffens, Francis J. Kloosterman-Eijgenraam, Marco H. Blanker

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25 Apr 2023

The effects of primary care monitoring strategies on COVID-19 related hospitalisation and mortality: a retrospective electronic medical records review in a northern Italian province, the MAGMA study

Alice Serafini, Lucia Palandri, Peter Konstantin Kurotschka, Chiara Giansante, Maria Rita Sabattini, Martina Alfina Lavenia, Marina Scarpa, Davide Fornaciari, Matteo Morandi, Francesco Bellelli, Maria Stella Padula, Elena Righi, Giulia Ugolini, Silvia Riccomi

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20 Apr 2023

Experience and views of primary care physicians involved in reorganisation of care in family medicine practices during COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study from Slovenia

Simona Kovačec, Zalika Klemenc-Ketiš, Antonija Poplas-Susič, Andrej Kravos

Published:

04 Apr 2023

Women’s sexually transmitted infections in primary care: General practitioners’ challenges and strategies – A qualitative study in Germany

Pauline Meurer, Christoph Heintze, Angela Schuster

Published:

03 Apr 2023

Patients and general practitioners agree that wearing masks during consultations complicates physician--patient relationships: An exploratory, qualitative study

Luc Aurégan, Clément Lebaron, Anthony Chapron, Jean-Philippe Duguey, Samuel Roger

Published:

31 Mar 2023

Author’s reply to comment on: A higher frequency of physical activity is associated with reduced rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection

Ilan Green, Eugene Merzon, Shlomo Vinker, Avivit Golan-Cohen, Ariel Israel, Mickey Scheinowitz, Reuven Ishai, Eli Magen, Shai Ashkenazi

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21 Mar 2023

Comment on: A higher frequency of physical activity is associated with reduced rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection

Tomofumi Funakoshi, Mariko Ishisaka, Masataka Kudo, Shinji Fujiwara, Kazuki Miyaue, Takashi Yoshioka

Published:

21 Mar 2023

Clinical pathway of COVID-19 patients in primary health care in 30 European countries: Eurodata study

Sara Ares-Blanco, Marina Guisado-Clavero, Lourdes Ramos Del Rio, Ileana Gefaell Larrondo, Louise Fitzgerald, Limor Adler, Radost Assenova, Maria Bakola, Sabine Bayen, Elena Brutskaya-Stempkovskaya, Iliana-Carmen Busneag, Philippe-Richard Domeyer, Dragan Gjorgjievski, Kathryn Hoffmann, Оксана Ільков, Vasilis Trifon Karathanos, Aleksandar Kirkovski, Snežana Knežević, Büsra Çimen Korkmaz, Bruno Heleno, Katarzyna Nessler, Liubovė Murauskienė, Ana Luisa Neves, Naldy Parodi López, Ábel Perjés, Davorina Petek, Ferdinando Petrazzuoli, Goranka Petricek, Bohumil Seifert, Alice Serafini, Theresa Sentker, Paula Tiili, Péter Torzsa, Bert Vaes, Gijs van Pottebergh, Shlomo Vinker, María Pilar Astier-Peña, Raquel Gómez-Bravo, Heidrun Lingner

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21 Mar 2023

Two years of approved digital health applications in Germany – Perspectives and experiences of general practitioners with an affinity for their use

Julian Wangler, Michael Jansky

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15 Mar 2023

Optimising the organisation of family medicine practice. Selected abstracts from the 94th EGPRN conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 12–15 May 2022

Published:

27 Feb 2023

Fostering clinical research in general practice and family medicine. Selected abstracts from the 93rd EGPRN conference Halle, Germany, 14–17 October 2021

Published:

23 Feb 2023

Rural family medicine as a career option among Hungarian medical students

András Mohos, Gergő József Szőllősi, László Róbert Kolozsvári, Jozsef Rinfel, Albert Varga, Maria Marko Kucsera, Csenge Hargittay, Peter Torzsa

Published:

16 Feb 2023

The experiences and thoughts of Turkish family physicians about COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study

Duygu Ayhan Başer, Pınar Döner Güner, Raziye Şule Gümüştakım, Ezgi Agadayi, Hilal Aksoy, İzzet Fidancı

Published:

14 Feb 2023

German general practitioners’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic and how it affected their patient care: A qualitative study

Lisa Makowski, Hanna Schrader, Sandra Parisi, Jana Ehlers-Mondorf, Stefanie Joos, Hanna Kaduszkiewicz, Ildikó Gágyor

Published:

01 Feb 2023

Perspectives of Dutch women on premenstrual disorder. A qualitative study exploring women’s experiences

Marijke S. Labots-Vogelesang, Rachel Kooiman-Andringa, Theodora A. M. Teunissen, Antoine L. M. Lagro-Janssen

Published:

30 Jan 2023

Immediate release fentanyl in general practices: Mostly off-label prescribing

Yvette M. Weesie, Liset van Dijk, Marcel L. Bouvy, Karin Hek

Published:

25 Jan 2023

Sex and income inequalities in preventive services in diabetes

Sara Ares-Blanco, Juan A. López-Rodríguez, Mario Fontán Vela, Elena Polentinos-Castro, Isabel del Cura-González

Published:

20 Jan 2023

Initial symptoms and three months follow-up after acute COVID-19 in outpatients: An international prospective cohort study

Katarina Hedin, Alike W. van der Velden, Malene Plejdrup Hansen, Anna B. Moberg, Anca Balan, Pascale Bruno, Samuel Coenen, Eskild Johansen, Anna Kowalczyk, Peter Konstantin Kurotschka, Sanne R. van der Linde, Lile Malania, Jörn Rohde, Jan Verbakel, Heike Vornhagen, Akke Vellinga

Published:

19 Jan 2023

Gender differences in GPs’ strategies for coping with the stress of the COVID-19 pandemic in Catalonia: A cross-sectional study

Enric Aragonès, Maribel Fernández-San-Martín, Maria Rodríguez-Barragán, Francisco Martín-Luján, Mònica Solanes, Anna Berenguera, Antoni Sisó, Josep Basora

Published:

19 Dec 2022

COVID-19 vaccine short-term adverse events in the real-life family practice in Krakow, Poland

Marek Oleszczyk, Zuzanna Marciniak, Katarzyna Nessler, Ewa Wójtowicz, Nataliya Szozda, Elżbieta Kryj-Radziszewska, Maria Boroń, Klaudia Gajos, Mateusz P. Paziewski, Paweł Sajdak, Adam Windak

Published:

05 Dec 2022

Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among Belgian nursing home residents and staff during the primary COVID-19 vaccination campaign

Eline Meyers, Liselore De Rop, Ellen Deschepper, Els Duysburgh, Tine De Burghgraeve, Pauline Van Ngoc, Marina Digregorio, Simon Delogne, Anja Coen, Nele De Clercq, Laëtitia Buret, Samuel Coenen, An De Sutter, Beatrice Scholtes, Jan Y. Verbakel, Piet Cools, Stefan Heytens

Published:

28 Nov 2022

A face-to-face national congress experience during the COVID-19 pandemic: A report focussing on the risk of COVID-19 contamination

Julie Dupouy, Marc Chaneliere, Matthieu Schuers, Catherine Laporte, Marc Bayen, Aurélie Gaultier, Cédric Rat

Published:

09 Nov 2022

A higher frequency of physical activity is associated with reduced rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection

Ilan Green, Eugene Merzon, Shlomo Vinker, Avivit Golan-Cohen, Ariel Israel, Mickey Scheinowitz, Reuven Ishai, Shai Ashkenazi, Eli Magen

Published:

07 Nov 2022