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Medication adherence: understanding the issues and finding solutions

Adherence is defined as the extent to which the individual's behaviour or actions match the recommendations agreed with their health professional (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence...

Collaboration between a tertiary pain centre and community teams during the pandemic

The mean age of the patients at the pain centre was 58 years and about 50% had three or more comorbidities, placing them at a higher risk of morbidity and mortality from COVID-19. Approximately 30%...

Oral conditions in the community patient: part 1

Oral health has a symbiotic relationship with many chronic systemic diseases, including diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Poor oral health can exacerbate existing underlying disease by contributing...

Management of autonomic dysreflexia in the community

When a person sustains a spinal cord injury (Figure 1), all autonomic nerve function below the injury stops (Norris, 2020). Essentially, AD is caused by a disruption to the autonomic nervous system at...

Patients transferring from hospital care

The records that are kept of a patient's health and progress are central to the process of ongoing care. Records should not only be written in clear language but should also be expressed in such a way...

Interventions for hand eczema

The primary objective of the review summarised here (Christoffers et al, 2019) was to assess the efficacy of topical and systemic interventions for hand eczema in adults and children..

Correspondence

‘In a changing environment, we can appeal to history to show whether a continuity of function and definition exists or whether the district nurse of the past is simply that: a thing of the past.’ .

Space and earth: how gravity affects treatment development

Being in space not only affects the ability of humans to adjust to sitting or standing in gravity when they return, but it also affects their bone density, muscle mass and stress hormone levels, as...

What has happened this summer?

‘The ‘stay at home’ message appears to have deterred parents from taking their children for routine vaccinations’ .

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