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Defining the Content of an Opportunistic Osteoarthritis Consultation With Primary Health Care Professionals: A Delphi Consensus Study (2012)
Journal Article
Objective To define the core content for an opportunistic consultation between a health care professional (HCP) and a patient with osteoarthritis (OA) in primary care. Methods An ideas generation round and a 2-round Delphi postal consensus study... Read More about Defining the Content of an Opportunistic Osteoarthritis Consultation With Primary Health Care Professionals: A Delphi Consensus Study.
Evaluation of a patient-initiated review system in rheumatoid arthritis: an implementation trial protocol (2012)
Journal Article
Background Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory condition that affects the joints causing unpredictable episodes of pain, stiffness and disability. People with rheumatoid arthritis usually require lifelong specialist follow-up but frequent... Read More about Evaluation of a patient-initiated review system in rheumatoid arthritis: an implementation trial protocol.
Breast Radiotherapy: Less is More? (2012)
Journal Article
Patients’ Experiences of Shared Decision Making in Primary Care Practices in the United Kingdom (2012)
Journal Article
Background. Shared decision making (SDM) and patient self-management support are key components of US and UK policy for chronic disease management, whereby SDM is seen as enhancing physician-patient negotiation around self-management. The WISE trial... Read More about Patients’ Experiences of Shared Decision Making in Primary Care Practices in the United Kingdom.
Exploring the cost-utility of stratified primary care management for low back pain compared with current best practice within risk-defined subgroups. (2012)
Journal Article
OBJECTIVES: Stratified management for low back pain according to patients' prognosis and matched care pathways has been shown to be an effective treatment approach in primary care. The aim of this within-trial study was to determine the economic impl... Read More about Exploring the cost-utility of stratified primary care management for low back pain compared with current best practice within risk-defined subgroups..
Agreement of self-reported items and clinically assessed nerve root involvement (or sciatica) in a primary care setting. (2012)
Journal Article
INTRODUCTION: We analysed baseline measures from an RCT involving adults with low back pain (LBP) with or without referred leg pain, to identify self-report items that best identified clinically determined nerve root involvement (sciatica). METHODS:... Read More about Agreement of self-reported items and clinically assessed nerve root involvement (or sciatica) in a primary care setting..
Concentration–Response Function for Ozone and Daily Mortality: Results from Five Urban and Five Rural U.K. Populations (2012)
Journal Article
Background: Short-term exposure to ozone has been associated with increased daily mortality. The shape of the concentration–response relationship—and, in particular, if there is a threshold—is critical for estimating public health impacts. Objecti... Read More about Concentration–Response Function for Ozone and Daily Mortality: Results from Five Urban and Five Rural U.K. Populations.
Antiepileptic drugs and the fetal epigenome (2012)
Journal Article
Antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) can lower maternal folate and increase maternal homocysteine levels, which are known to affect the methyl cycle and hence DNA methylation levels. The influence of in utero exposure to AEDs on fetal DNA methylation was inves... Read More about Antiepileptic drugs and the fetal epigenome.
Managing demand for laboratory tests: a laboratory toolkit (2012)
Journal Article
Healthcare budgets worldwide are facing increasing pressure to reduce costs and improve efficiency, while maintaining quality. Laboratory testing has not escaped this pressure, particularly since pathology investigations cost the National Health Serv... Read More about Managing demand for laboratory tests: a laboratory toolkit.
Does life course socio-economic position influence chronic disabling pain in older adults? A general population study (2012)
Journal Article
Background Chronic pain is the leading cause of disability in developed countries. Prevalence is linked with socio-economic position (SEP), but little is known about the influence of SEP on disabling pain over the life course. We have investigated t... Read More about Does life course socio-economic position influence chronic disabling pain in older adults? A general population study.
The effectiveness of national guidance in changing analgesic prescribing in primary care from 2002 to 2009: an observational database study (2012)
Journal Article
BACKGROUND: Numerous national guidelines have been issued to assist general practitioners' safe analgesic prescribing. Their effectiveness is unclear. The objective of this study was to examine trends in general practitioners' prescribing behaviour i... Read More about The effectiveness of national guidance in changing analgesic prescribing in primary care from 2002 to 2009: an observational database study.
Development of an assessment schedule for patients with low back-associated leg pain in primary care: a Delphi consensus study. (2012)
Journal Article
PURPOSE The objectives of this study were to develop consensus on (i) the content of a clinical assessment for adults presenting to primary care with low back and leg pain, and (ii) the most important items for diagnosing spinal nerve root involveme... Read More about Development of an assessment schedule for patients with low back-associated leg pain in primary care: a Delphi consensus study..
The burden of paediatric asthma: economic and familiar (2012)
Book Chapter
BACKGROUND: Since few cohorts encompass the whole life-course, many studies that measure socio-economic position (SEP) across the life-course rely on participant recall of SEP measures from cross-sectional postal or interview surveys. It is also part... Read More about Validity of two simple measures for estimating life-course socio-economic position in cross-sectional postal survey data in an older population: results from the North Staffordshire Osteoarthritis Project (NorStOP).
The epidemiology of polymyalgia rheumatica in primary care: a research protocol (2012)
Journal Article
BACKGROUND: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) is the commonest inflammatory condition seen in older patients in primary care. To date, however, research has been focused on secondary care cohorts rather than primary care where many patients are exclusivel... Read More about The epidemiology of polymyalgia rheumatica in primary care: a research protocol.
SELF MANAGEMENT IN OA: EVIDENCE FOR THE ROLE OF THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Primary care, although varying between countries, is where most health care for osteoarthritis (OA) is provided in the context of peripheral joint pain in older adults. Education and self-management are specific recommendations of all clinical guidel... Read More about SELF MANAGEMENT IN OA: EVIDENCE FOR THE ROLE OF THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM.
AN OVERVIEW OF BEST PRACTICES IN OA CARE (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Towards a definition of refractory neuropathic pain for epidemiological research. An international Delphi survey of experts (2012)
Journal Article
BACKGROUND: Best current estimates of neuropathic pain (NeuP) prevalence come from studies using various screening detecting pain with probable neuropathic features; the proportion experiencing significant, long-term NeuP, and the proportion not resp... Read More about Towards a definition of refractory neuropathic pain for epidemiological research. An international Delphi survey of experts.