Epidemiological Studies in Cornwall

Injectable opiate prescribing in Cornwall

AIMS AND METHOD To compare local practice with national guidelines, examine the areas of divergence, and establish complication rates for methadone and diamorphine. Fifty-one patients from Cornwall treated with injectable methadone or diamorphine were interviewed using a standard questionnaire. RESULTS Fewer problems were reported by individuals using injectable diamorphine, though for both dru...

Comparison of diagnostic criteria for Atopic dermatitis in epidemiological studies

Atopic dermatitis is one of the commonest childhood diseases. Large variations in the prevalence of the disease have been observed in different studies. This variation in the prevalence may be not only from genetic and environmental factors but also from methodology of estimating prevalence of the disease. In this study, Hanifin and UKWP criteria have been used in determining prevalence of the ...

Notes from Cornwall

A well-known maxim, used to put hazards into perspective, reminds the patient that treatment can never be completely safe; there's risk involved even in crossing the road. Whoever invented this saying probably lived or worked in the London borough of Camden. The trek to London for the autumn meeting of the British Society of Gastroenterology reinforced my view that I'm better out of the big cit...

Defining asthma in epidemiological studies.

It has been suggested that, in epidemiological studies, asthma should be defined as symptomatic bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR). This paper critically examines the validity of this and alternative methods of defining asthma by reviewing population-based studies validating BHR and symptom questionnaires against asthma defined on the basis of a clinical assessment. It is emphasized that a sin...

Missing values in epidemiological studies