This issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, guest edited by Drs. Seetha Monrad and Daniel Battafarano, is devoted to Rheumatology. Articles in this issue include: Approach to the Patient with Suspected Rheumatic Disease; A Primer on Rheumatologic Labs; Practical Pearls About Current Rheumatic Medications; Diagnosis and Treatment of Gout and Pseudogout for Everyday Practice; Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis; Systemic Lupus Erythematosus for Primary Care; Other Inflammatory Arthritides: Ankylosing Spondylitis, Reactive Arthritis, and Psoriatic Arthritis; Musculoskeletal Problems in Children; Soft Tissue Rheumatic Syndromes; Primary Care Vasculitis: Polymyalgia Rheumatica and Giant Cell Arteritis; Fibromyalgia; Recognizing Central Pain and Assorted Symptoms; Autoimmunity Mimics: Infection and Malignancy; and Management of Osteoarthritis.
... among others but have yet to be incorporated into guidelines or integrated into routine clinical practice for the diagnosis or management ... defining, and managing the disease, as well as variation in medical coding of the disease.
Understanding Fibromyalgia 2020 Carrie Schreibman, MSN, FNP KEYWORDS Fibromyalgia Fatigue Nonrestorative sleep ... outcomes: patient education, physical therapy, occupational therapy, psychotherapy, complimentary alternative medicine, ...
Chronic pain and the family: the experience of the partners of people living with chronic pain. J Clin Nurs 2012;21(23–24): 3352–60. 21. Mathias JL, Cant ML, Burke AL. Sleep disturbances and sleep disorders in adults living with chronic ...
monitoring of biological functions.68 The use of video is seen as beneficial for variety of neurologic conditions ... such as Parkinson disease.69 Epilepsy care is an opportunity to expand teleneurology virtual clinics with ambulatory ...
Aref A, Achiron A, Akkara J. Drug-induced acute angle closure glaucoma. 2019. Available at: https://eyewiki.aao.org/Drug-induced_Acute_Angle_Closure_ Glaucoma. Accessed August 23, 2020. 17. Burckhard BA, Ringeisen AL.
11 , 12 A sleep history must catalog sleep habits and outcomes as well as look for risk factors for insomnia. ... In non-sleep-deprived individuals, this value is typically 15 to 20 minutes, whereas shorter latency times indicate sleep ...
In this issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, guest editors Luz M. Fernandez and Jonathan A. Becker bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Common Pediatric Issues.
Primary Care Providers and Complementary and Alternative Therapies Patient interest has far outpaced the resources of the traditional health care system; standard texts and reference books do not cover herbs, ...
POSTOPERATIVE INPATIENT CARE OF OLDER ADULTS Multidisciplinary Inpatient Care Team The foundation of high-quality ... now been developed that activate geriatric protocols beginning in the emergency department at the time of admission.
2. Goldstein NE, Morrison RS. Evidence-based practice of palliative medicine. Saunders: Elsevier; 2012. p. 2–6. 3. Lewis VR, Eti S. Assessment and management of chronic pain in the seriously ill. Primary care: clinics in office practice ...