Chronic headaches in general practice.

Chronic headaches in family practice.

BACKGROUND More than 11 million people in the United States have moderate or severe migraine resulting in much suffering and millions of lost work days annually. Staying abreast of current advances in headache management is important for family physicians, who care for most headache patients. METHODS MEDLINE files were searched from 1982 to the present using the key words "headache," "migrain...

PRACTICE DIAGNOSIS IN GENERAL PRACTICE Chronic cough in adults

The diagnostic dilemma Chronic cough is somewhat arbitrarily defined as any cough with a duration of eight weeks. It is common in primary care. In one postal survey of 11 000 patients registered with four general practices, 14% of men and 10% of women reported coughing on more than half the days in the year. In practice, smokers rarely consult about their cough because they assume (usually corr...

Chronic fatigue syndrome in Army general practice.

Comorbidity Patterns in Patients with Chronic Diseases in General Practice

INTRODUCTION Healthcare management is oriented toward single diseases, yet multimorbidity is nevertheless the rule and there is a tendency for certain diseases to occur in clusters. This study sought to identify comorbidity patterns in patients with chronic diseases, by reference to number of comorbidities, age and sex, in a population receiving medical care from 129 general practitioners in Sp...

CHRONIC RHEUMATIC JOINT DISEASE IN GENERAL PRACTICE.* By PHILIP

Chronic rheumatic joint disease is the greatest single cause of disability in temperate climates and is said to produce more pensionable invalidism than any other condition except cardiovascular disease in old age. It is therefore unfortunate that chronic arthritis, which is so formidable a scourge in this country, should, until recent years, have been relegated to the list of uninteresting and...