Results Most patients were female (n=13) and had a family history of TRAPS (n=9). Physical functioning was greatly impaired during an attack with most common symptoms including fever, abdominal pain, joint pain, rash, vomiting and diarrhoea. Fever was the most prominent symptom in children and muscle and joint pain in adults. Paediatric patients reported missing school due to attacks or attendi...

We agree with Tang and colleagues that safer indoor environments are needed as covid-19 becomes something we may have to live with.1 The pandemic has placed significant strain on primary care medical dental services. Consultations primarily moved a telemedicine service limited face-to-face contact. GPs were initially advised not examine the oral cavity unless deemed essential.2 In UK sector, o...

OBJECTIVE To assess Brazilian Unified Health System outpatient services delivering care to adults living with AIDS in 2007 and to compare with the assessment conducted in 2001. METHODS The 636 health services registered in the Ministry of Health in 2007 were invited to respond to a previously validated questionnaire (Qualiaids Questionnaire) with 107 multiple-choice questions about the organi...

OBJECTIVES Although postdischarge outpatient follow-up appointments after a hospitalization for heart failure represent a potentially effective strategy to prevent heart failure readmissions, patterns of scheduled follow-up appointments upon discharge are poorly described. We aimed to characterize real-world patterns of scheduled follow-up appointments among adult patients with heart failure up...

BACKGROUND As part of efforts to improve the prevention of mother-to-child transmission in Northern Uganda, we explored reasons for poor viral suppression among 122 pregnant and lactating women who were in care, received viral load tests, but had not achieved viral suppression and had more than 1000 copies/mL. Understanding the patient factors associated with low viral suppression was of intere...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency and duration of missed hospital appointments (MHAs) in a consecutive cohort of patients treated with ranibizumab for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) and to assess their impact on outcomes of therapy in a real-world clinical setting. METHODS Retrospective, cross-sectional study of consecutive patients atten...

Quando qualcosa lacera il vissuto imponendosi come traumatico, esso espone altresı̀, come il negativo di un’antica foto, una prospettiva invisibile e di difficile comprensione: è il non accadimento di qualcos’altro. E’ l’appuntamento mancato dell’esistenza: ciò che avrebbe potuto verificarsi e non è accaduto. La morte improvvisa della persona cara non scava soltanto solchi profondi nelle pieghe ...

AIMS To study the reasons for attendance behaviour from the patient viewpoint at a young adult diabetes outpatient clinic. METHODS Attendance rates for 231 clinic appointments over 19 months for 102 patients were calculated. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 17 of the 102. The interviews encouraged participants to describe routines, thoughts and feelings aro...

OBJECTIVE To determine the impact of missed visits on CD4 cell count with HIV disease in a Midwest clinic. METHODS This was a mixed method study consisting of a quantitative retrospective cohort study of missed clinic visits among HIV-infected patients, and a qualitative study to collect information on factors impacting appointment attendance. A drop in CD4 cell count greater than 50 cells/mm...

449 Dear Editor, Uninsured people have considerably less access to eye doctors and treatments for eye diseases. In a partnership between the Hope Clinic, a non‐profit medical clinic for uninsured individuals, and the University of Michigan’s ophthalmology department, free comprehensive ophthalmic examinations are offered once every two months on a Saturday. We conducted a study on the populatio...