One stop multidisciplinary pain clinic for survivors of torture

Chronic pain in refugee torture survivors

The number of refugee torture survivors worldwide is accelerating given violent global conflict, and healthcare providers are more likely to encounter refugees in their practices. The World Health Organization has declared the existing refugee migration an international humanitarian disaster, considering it the worst humanitarian crisis since the Second World War. The United Nations High Commis...

The one-stop coronary cholesterol clinic: a multidisciplinary approach to implementing evidence-based treatment.

We describe a 'one-stop' cholesterol clinic implementing a regime based on the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S) in patients with established coronary heart disease in a district general hospital. The clinic has been established in collaboration with the cardiac rehabilitation centre. It was commissioned as an audit project by the purchasing authority, Walsall Health, a need having b...

The One-Stop Aortic Surveillance Clinic

BACKGROUND The principle of interval ultrasound surveillance of small abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) is well established. The fundamental principle of surveillance is that repair of AAA is a serious undertaking and the risk of the operation outweighs the risk of rupture in aneurysms less than 5.5 cm. Surveillance is well established but requires multiple visits to both the surgical clinic and...

Healing in survivors of torture.

Incidence of bladder cancer in a one-stop clinic.

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to demonstrate the importance of transvaginal scan (TVS) in the detection of bladder tumors in patients presenting with postmenopausal bleeding. MATERIALS AND METHODS We examined the case records of all patients that attended a one-stop clinic between September 2001 and May 2004. Those presenting with postmenopausal bleeding (PMB) underwent transvaginal scan...