Inequalities in general practice remote consultations: a systematic review.

Background: COVID-19 has led to rapid and widespread use of remote consultations in general practice, but the health inequalities impact remains unknown.

Aim: To explore the impact of remote consultations in general practice, compared to face-to-face consultations, on utilisation and clinical outcomes across socioeconomic and disadvantaged groups.

Design & Setting: Systematic review.

Deprivation and primary care funding in Greater Manchester after devolution: a cross-sectional analysis.

Background: In April 2016 Greater Manchester gained control of its health and social care budget, a devolution that aimed to reduce health inequities both within Greater Manchester and between Greater Manchester and the rest of the country.

Aim: To describe the relationship between practice location deprivation and primary care funding and care quality measurements in the first year of Greater Manchester devolution (2016/2017).

Design And Setting: Cross-sectional analysis of 472 general practices in Greater Manchester in England.

Heel pain-plantar fasciitis: revision 2014.

The Orthopaedic Section of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) has an ongoing effort to create evidence-based practice guidelines for orthopaedic physical therapy management of patients with musculoskeletal impairments described in the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF). The purpose of these revised clinical practice guidelines is to review recent peer-reviewed literature and make recommendations related to nonarthritic heel pain.

The functional role of the periphery in emotional language comprehension.

Language can impact emotion, even when it makes no reference to emotion states. For example, reading sentences with positive meanings ("The water park is refreshing on the hot summer day") induces patterns of facial feedback congruent with the sentence emotionality (smiling), whereas sentences with negative meanings induce a frown. Moreover, blocking facial afference with botox selectively slows comprehension of emotional sentences.

Demographics and diagnoses at rural health camps in Nepal: cross-sectional study.

Background: The charity 'Health Partnership Nepal' is committed to both improving global health care and providing medical training links between Nepal and the UK. This paper analyses data gathered at rural health camps.

Aim: To describe the demographics, diagnoses and treatments offered to people attending three rural health camps in Nepal during 2009.

Musculoskeletal impairment of traumatic etiology in Rwanda: prevalence, causes, and service implications.

Background: The present study examines demographics, causes, and diagnoses of traumatic musculoskeletal impairment (MSI) in Rwanda and identifies treatment barriers in order to describe the injury burden and inform service planning.

Methods: In all, 105 clusters were chosen by multistage stratified cluster random sampling with probability proportional to size. Eighty people from each cluster were identified for screening by a modified compact segment sampling method.

Screening for elevated levels of fear-avoidance beliefs regarding work or physical activities in people receiving outpatient therapy.

Background: Screening people for elevated levels of fear-avoidance beliefs is uncommon, but elevated levels of fear could worsen outcomes. Developing short screening tools might reduce the data collection burden and facilitate screening, which could prompt further testing or management strategy modifications to improve outcomes.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to develop efficient yet accurate screening methods for identifying elevated levels of fear-avoidance beliefs regarding work or physical activities in people receiving outpatient rehabilitation.

Clinical outcomes for patients classified by fear-avoidance beliefs and centralization phenomenon.

Objectives: To (1) determine the prevalence of pain pattern classification subgroups (centralization, noncentralization, and not classified) observed during the initial evaluation of patients experiencing high versus low Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire for physical activity (FABQ-PA) scores, (2) examine the association between discharge pain intensity and functional status (FS) outcomes based on FABQ-PA and pain pattern subgroups, and (3) compare minimal clinically important improvement for FS and pain intensity for FABQ-PA and pain pattern classification subgroups.

Design: Observational cohort design.

Setting: Suburban hospital-based outpatient rehabilitation clinic.

Is there a subgroup of patients with low back pain likely to benefit from mechanical traction? Results of a randomized clinical trial and subgrouping analysis.

Study Design: Randomized Clinical Trial.

Objective: To identify a subgroup of patients with low back pain who are likely to respond favorably to an intervention including mechanical traction.

Summary Of Background Data: Previous research has failed to find evidence supporting traction for patients with low back pain.

Distinct patterns of evolution between respiratory syncytial virus subgroups A and B from New Zealand isolates collected over thirty-seven years.

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the most important cause of viral lower respiratory tract infections in infants and children worldwide. In New Zealand, infants with RSV disease are hospitalized at a higher rate than other industrialized countries, without a proportionate increase in known risk factors. The molecular epidemiology of RSV in New Zealand has never been described.

Field Testing As Clinical Trial Methodology in Periodontics.

In the early 1950s the randomized control trial (RCT) was introduced and became widely accepted as the definitive proof of efficacy of a specific medical treatment. In fact, the acceptance and application of this methodology were instrumental in converting medicine from an unpredictable art to a science. At present no other methodologies exist that allow the evaluation of therapeutic efficacy with confidence comparable to that achieved with randomized controlled trials.