The doctoral thesis of Bernardino Oliva-Fanlo (member of the COGITA group) entitled “Gut Feelings in the diagnostic process of Spanish family physicians” has won the II PREMIO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN MEDICINA DE FAMILIA SALVADOR TRANCHE award for the doctoral thesis published in Spain in 2022 of greatest interest for Family Medicine. The prize is awarded… read more

The study of the role of gut feelings in the diagnosis of cancer has been increasing in recent years as the existence and value of GPs’ gut feelings gained prominence. Focusing on primary care we can find qualitative and quantitative approaches. Here you find an update of a summary of some of these studies, written… read more

May 2019. Marie Barais is the coordinator of the European network group of gut feelings researchers, called COGITA. Last year, in Antwerp (Belgium), Marie defended successfully her PhD entitled ‘The sense of alarm as a tool preventing error in primary care’. Her email adress: mariebarais@gmail.com

Marie Barais, a French GP (Brest), defended successfully her PhD entitled ‘The sense of alarm as a tool preventing error in primary care’, in Antwerp (2018/10/17). In the first part of this thesis, she gives  account for the translation of the gut feelings questionnaire (GFQ) in three European languages. She also reports the results of a thoroughly performed feasibility… read more

Gooske Douw, a nurse, defended succesfully her thesis ‘Just Worry. Exploring triggers used by nurses to identify surgical patients at risk for clinical deterioration’, in Nijmegen (2018/10/4). From literature, it is known that nurses may have a sense of alarm earlier that vital parameters will deviate. The aim of the thesis was to explore nurses’… read more

The Gut Feelings Questionnaire has been translated into German using a linguistic validation procedure. The whole validation procedure was done by the researchers Johannes Hauswaldt (general practitioner) and Daniel Hausmann (psychologist). They plan to publish a report of the whole procedure together with French and Polish researchers who performed a similar translation procedure into French and Polish…. read more