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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
Jean-Pierre Lebeau,Jean-Sébastien Cadwallader,Isabelle Aubin-Auger,Alain Mercier,Thomas Pasquet,Emmanuel Rusch,Kristin Hendrickx,Etienne Vermeire +7 more
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
Alain Mercier,Isabelle Auger-Aubin,Jean-Pierre Lebeau,Matthieu Schuers,Pascal Boulet,Jean-Loup Hermil,Paul Van Royen,Lieve Peremans,Lieve Peremans +8 more
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.
Isabelle Aubin-Auger,Alain Mercier,Jean-Pierre Lebeau,Laurence Baumann,Lieve Peremans,Lieve Peremans,Paul Van Royen +6 more
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.
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Efficacy of Communication Skills Training on Colorectal Cancer Screening by GPs: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial
Isabelle Aubin-Auger,Cédric Laouénan,Cédric Laouénan,J. Le Bel,J. Le Bel,Alain Mercier,D Baruch,Jean-Pierre Lebeau,A Youssefian,T Le Trung,Lieve Peremans,Lieve Peremans,P. Van Royen +12 more
TL;DR: Doctor-patient communication should be developed and appear to be one of the possible targets of improvement patients adherence and participation rate in the target population for CRC mass screening.