- Abstract:
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The study aims were to assess the burden of non-traumatic wrist pain in terms of numbers of referrals to secondary care and to characterize how patients present, are diagnosed and are managed in secondary care in the UK National Health Service.
Methods.
Ten consecutive patients presenting with non-traumatic wrist pain were identified retrospectively at each of 16 participating hospitals, and data were extracted for 12 months after the initial referral.
Results. - Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Rheumatology Advances in Practice Journal website
- Volume:
- 4
- Issue:
- 2
- Article number:
- rkaa030
- Publication date:
- 2020-07-07
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-06-11
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2514-1775
- Pubs id:
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1122655
- Local pid:
- pubs:1122655
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Copyright holder:
- Dean et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- ©2020 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- License:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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The presentation, diagnosis and management of non-traumatic wrist pain: An evaluation of current practice in secondary care in the UK NHS
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