18 Apr 2012
| by Dr Tillmann Jacobi
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Disruptions in the central nervous system (15%), namely the brain stem, or psychological or psychiatric conflicts (10%), as well as cardiovascular, visual, proprioceptive and other systemic conditions can cause ...
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1. Aetiology
In about 40% of vertigo, the problem lies in the peripheral vestibular system ...
25 Jan 2012
| by Harry Longman
workload? Partner Dr Kam Singh explains: 'Under our old system, we wasted a dozen or more appointments ...
love the system and the GPs can make more time for themselves. 'That is translating into lower costs ...
. 'They found none who didn't like the new system,' Dr Singh says.
Nationally more than 40 practices ...
01 Mar 2012
| by Dr Pooja Trehan, Dr Klara Balogh and Dr Rachael Morris-Jones
Is the two-week wait referral system improving diagnosis rates in skin cancer?...-week wait referral (2WW) system in England and Wales was to reduce waiting times for specialist consultation ...
than 95% of all skin cancers. The 2WW system in dermatology was designed to improve outcomes ...
patients at medical school or soon after qualifying as a GP, so 2WW is an excellent system for allowing ...
11 Jan 2012
| by Dr Raza Toosy and Dr Saeed Chaudhary
Two GP viewpoints on deploying telehealth systems from Dr Raza Toosy and Dr Saeed Chaudhary...of patient care, the system fails when patients do not engage or are unwilling to change, despite help from ...
-fifth of patients on a caseload were provided with a Tunstall telehealth system.
Over a 12-month period ...
to work at the practice nurse level, with systems in place to support nurses taking on the challenge ...
Study suggests scoring system could limit inappropriate use of antipsychotics for dementia patients.
Hospital admissions for asthma can be reduced by providing systemic corticosteroid treatment within....
Systemic corticosteroids were given within 75 minutes in 50% of cases, and there were delays in 33% of cases. In 17% of cases, children failed to receive any systemic corticosteroid treatment.
Early administration of systemic corticosteroids reduced the odds of children being admitted to hospital by 40%.
Dr ...
A tool to predict patients' risk of cancer could be integrated into GP computer systems to improve...patients.
It could also be integrated into GP computer systems to generate a list of high-risk patients ...
08 Feb 2012
| by Chris Lancelot
their best to help the patients while being obstructed by managers with their imposed, dysfunctional systems....their systems to make them cost-effective and fit for purpose. Instead, they expect others to adopt time-consuming workarounds.
Take Choose and Book: a new system which often didn't fit properly on existing hospital ...
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It was introduced piecemeal. It constantly changed its nature - always unhelpful when bedding in new systems ...
18 Jan 2012
| by Susie Sell
transform the NHS into a US-style system, GP leaders fear....that incentivise integration would move the NHS towards a US system with large commercial companies taking control ...
01 Feb 2012
| by Mary Selby
Last week, I told Mrs Anxious that snot is a sign of good health and a robust immune system and she