Letter: Inquiry among rheumatism unit outpatients.

An experiment with an advance letter of an interview inquiry.

In an earlier study (Cartwright and Tucker, 1967) we explored the possibility of reducing the number of calls on an interview inquiry by writing to people beforehand asking when they were most likely to be in. That experiment was unsuccessful: more people replied saying that they did not want to be interviewed than wrote telling us suitable times to call, and the final response rate in the expe...

drUg UtIlIZatIon aMong sUrgIcal oUtpatIEnts

Received for publication: Mar. 23, 2005. Revised: Jul. 25, 2006. rEZUMat Department of Pharmacology, *Department of Surgery, Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara, Nepal

Pirprofen in treatment of non-articular rheumatism in Pakistani outpatients, a multicentre study.

This study was conducted by 50 leading family physicians and consultants scattered throughout Pakistan to evaluate efficacy and tolerability of Pirprofen in non-articular rheumatism in Asian populations. A total of 199 subjects suffering from soft tissue rheumatism completed 2 weeks therapy. Evaluation of patient’s condition was made on days 0, 7 and 14, seven target symptoms and signs were eva...

Rheumatism

IT is natural that a (lisease of the social and econiomic importance of rheumatism should ocCIpy a considerable place in medical literature. Nevertheless, until the last few nears, little of importanice has been adide(d to ourikniowle(dge of this crippling group of dliseases. Significant advances in treatmenit, a closer stu(dy of the composition of synovial fluii(d and(l of the factors wvhich i...

Rheumatism