The way we think about health and health care is changing. The two factors driving this
change are the recognition of the importance of the social consequences of disease and the …

In modern medicine the traditional way of assessing change in patients has been to focus on
laboratory or clinical tests. At its most simple this involves measuring pulse, blood pressure, …

Quality of life measures are increasingly used to supplement objective clinical or biological
measures of disease to assess the quality of service, the need for health care, the …

Gout is the most common cause of inflammatory arthritis worldwide. In UK general practice,
the overall prevalence has increased from 1.4% in 1999 to 2.49% in 2012 [1], despite the …

Our aim was to explore the patient's perspective of outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) to
identify which outcomes are important to patients and how patients calibrate what constitutes …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of specially trained
physiotherapists in the assessment and management of defined referrals to hospital orthopaedic …

Objectives To explore patient and provider illness perceptions and barriers to effective
management of gout in general practice. Design and setting A qualitative study involving …

To build a common knowledge base and a common language about instruc-• tionDefi nition
of InstructionInstruction is anything that is done purposely to facilitate learning.•Th e Nature …

This article examines situated learning, constructivism, and feminist pedagogy as educational
reforms. In each case the "good idea" is described, justified, and defended based on the …

Objective: Measuring the impact of osteoarthritis has traditionally focused on the disease (measures
of impairment), functional disability and latterly, general health status or quality of life…