Effective and rapid triaging from primary care into secondary care plays a pivotal role in
providing patients with timely treatment and managing increasing demands for healthcare …

Aims and objectives. To assess the level of confidence that rheumatology patients would
have in nurse prescribing, the effects on likely adherence and particular concerns that these …

Three cases of childhood acute lymphatic leukaemia masquerading as juvenile chronic
arthritis are presented. All had symptoms and signs for at least 4 months before leukaemia was …

Reported alcohol consumption was quantified and scored by a validated questionnaire
administered by an interviewer to 64 patients (10 female) with Dupuytren's contracture (DC) …

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a crisis in the provision of usual services, including face-to-face
(FTF) outpatient clinics. The need for change came abruptly in late March 2020 as …

In popular belief patients with chronic arthritis take alcohol for its analgesic effect. To test
this we studied by validated questionnaire the past and present alcohol consumption of 103 …

Although clinical manifestations of ergotism have been known since antiquity, severe cases
of ergotism are still occasionally encountered. Most of these are caused by overdosage of or …

Early detection of inflammatory arthritis (IA) is critical to efficient and accurate hospital
referral triage for timely treatment and preventing the deterioration of the IA disease course, …

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We report the case of what we believe to be the oldest person to develop Reiter's Syndrome.
There was no evidence of preceding gastro-intestinal or genito-urinary infection but the …