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Alain Mercier

Researcher at University of Rouen

Publications -  15
Citations -  398

Alain Mercier is an academic researcher from University of Rouen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medical prescription & Mass screening. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 15 publications receiving 327 citations.

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The concept and definition of therapeutic inertia in hypertension in primary care : a qualitative systematic review

TL;DR: The authors' data analysis revealed a major lack of conceptualization of therapeutic inertia in hypertension and important discrepancies regarding its possible causes, mechanisms and outcomes.
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Evidence of prescription of antidepressants for non-psychiatric conditions in primary care: an analysis of guidelines and systematic reviews

TL;DR: Prescription of ADs was found to be beneficial for many non-psychiatric health conditions regularly encountered in PC settings and the guidelines were heterogeneous, seemingly due to a lack of trials assessing the role ofADs in treatment strategies.
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Obstacles to colorectal screening in general practice: a qualitative study of GPs and patients.

TL;DR: In this article, five focus groups were conducted in different areas to explore physicians' obstacles to faecal occult blood test (FOBT) screening, and patients' obstacles were assessed in semi-structured interviews.
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Understanding the prescription of antidepressants: a Qualitative study among French GPs

TL;DR: How GPs declare they use antidepressants in daily practice and understand their reasons for prescribing them were explored to find the GPs' decision making process is difficult and complex.