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The impact of comorbidities/multimorbidy on health services

WEBWhen comorbidities aren't taken into account, people get suboptimal care leading to worse clinical outcomes. Comorbidities are also associated with longer …

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Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment

WEBSummary. Hypertensive emergency is severely elevated blood pressure (BP) associated with new or progressive target organ dysfunction. If the clinical …

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A glossary of health economics terms BMJ Best Practice

WEBThe economic definition of cost (also known as opportunity cost) is the value of opportunity forgone, strictly the best opportunity forgone, as a result of engaging resources in an …

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Why do we need evidence-based medicine

WEBEvidence-based guidelines (international, national, or local) and systematic reviews (summaries of the available evidence for a particular medical question) make it a bit …

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Weighing the benefits and harms: information for patients

WEBYour age: This may affect the balance of benefits and harms. For example, if you are 40 and your hip always hurts because of osteoarthritis, you may want to weigh the benefits …

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Understanding risk BMJ Best Practice

WEBThe thing to remember is that, in both cases, the white dots show your chance of being fine. If you see numbers like 0.8 percent, this means the risk is less than 1 in 100. The more …

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Assessment of acute abdomen

WEBPain may: be located in any quadrant of the abdomen. be intermittent, sharp or dull, achy, or piercing. radiate from a focal site. be accompanied by nausea and …

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Medical Students and the Management of Patients

WEBBackground One in four adults in the UK have two or more medical conditions.1 One in three adults admitted to hospital in the UK have five or more conditions.1 The proportion …

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Clinical decision support for patients with comorbidities

WEBClinical decision support for patients with comorbidities A collection of papers exploring how clinical decision support needs to support patients with comorbidities by Dr Kieran Walsh.

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Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment

WEBSummary. Acute cholecystitis is a major complication of cholelithiasis (i.e., gallstones); symptomatic gallstones are common before developing cholecystitis. Right …

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Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)

WEBThere are two main subtypes of systemic sclerosis (SSc): limited cutaneous SSc and diffuse cutaneous SSc. The limited cutaneous form tends to have less severe …

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Assessment of unintentional weight loss

WEBSummary. Unintentional weight loss is often defined as weight loss of at least 5% of the patient’s usual body weight that occurs within the preceding 6 to 12 months, …

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Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment

WEBScarlet fever should be strongly suspected in a child or adolescent who presents with the triad of sore throat, fever (>38.0°C [>100.4°F]), and a scarlatiniform …

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Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment

WEBDefinition. Kwashiorkor, or edematous malnutrition, is defined as the presence of bilateral pitting edema, in the absence of another medical cause of edema, …

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How to write and publish a paper

WEBReport results fully & honestly, as pre-specified. Text (story), Tables (evidence), Figures (highlights) Report primary outcomes first. Give confidence intervals for main results. …

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