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OHE at HESG Winter 2017: Meet the Team
22 December 2016
…quality indicators for management of chronic conditions. Some indicators are multi-rewarded. For example, there are indicators for controlling blood pressure for patients with diabetes and for patients with chronic heart…
Pattern of Diabetes
1 July 1964
Over the past 40 years, diabetes has changed from a progressive or rapidly fatal disease in to a controlled chronic disorder with mortality confined mainly to old age. The new…
Early Diagnosis of Visual Defects
1 July 1967
…this age. In the elderly, the more important causes of defective vision include vascular disorders, cataract, macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and chronic glaucoma. However, only the last two offer scope…
Physical Impairment: Social Handicap
1 November 1977
…arthritis may need help very different from that required by individuals with epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, chronic bronchitis, a spinal injury, blindness1 or a combination of such afflictions. And factors such…
Renal Failure a priority in health?
4 January 1978
The incidence of treatable chronic renal failure in Britain and other Western countries is very small indeed. The most commonly quoted figure is forty people (under sixty years old) per…
Rheumatism and Arthritis in Britain
1 March 1973
…people now survive to become liable to the chronic conditions associated with advancing age. The rheumatic diseases are one of the most widespread of these forms of complaint in all…
NHS Outcomes, Performance and Productivity
3 March 2008
…be aggregated for use at the national level. To better analyse the issues raised by outcome measurement across the spectrum of NHS activities, the OHE Commission selected ‘tracer’ diseases for…
Leukaemia: Towards Control
6 January 1980
…For individuals unfortunate enough to contract an acute form in middle life the prognosis is still poor and even those with the relatively benign chronic leukaemias of later years will…
What Are My Chances Doctor? – a Review of Clinical Risks
1 November 1986
…of chronic disease such as diabetes or hypertension or alternatively with improving the quality of life for people with diseases like arthritis or schizophrenia. In addition, ‘high-tech’ medicine is replacing…