Osteoarthritis management in primary care

Knee osteoarthritis: Therapeutic alternatives in primary care

AIM To discusses pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapeutic alternatives for managing knee osteoarthritis in primary care by primary health care nurse practitioners. METHODS A case example is presented, the evidence-based guideline recommendations of the Osteoarthritis Research Society International and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons are reviewed, and a plan of care is ...

Care management for depression and osteoarthritis pain in older primary care patients: a pilot study.

OBJECTIVE To establish the feasibility of and to generate preliminary evidence for the efficacy of a care management program addressing both physical and emotional pain associated with late-life depression and osteoarthritis. METHODS Treatment development pilot study in three university affiliated primary care clinics. Participants were patients 60 years or older with depression and osteoarth...

Prevalence and management of osteoarthritis in primary care: an epidemiologic cohort study from the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network.

BACKGROUND Osteoarthritis is a common chronic condition that affects many older Canadians and is a considerable cause of disability. Our objective was to describe the epidemiology of osteoarthritis in patients aged 30 years and older using electronic medical records (EMRs) in a Canadian primary care population. METHODS In this retrospective cohort study, we analyzed the EMRs of 207 610 patien...

Management Issues in Primary Care

Dementia is an important public health problem, though more than half of all dementia cases may go undiagnosed in primary-care settings.1 Screening is one strategy to increase detection and diagnosis of dementia in primary care, but only 24% of Canadian primary-care physicians routinely screen for dementia.2 Multiple barriers to screening have been identified, the most ubiquitous being “tyranny...

Dieppe Osteoarthritis of the knee in primary care