Michael Shipley

TL;DR: Diffuse social relationships such as with friends and acquaintances, rather than more intimate ones appear to be more affected in individuals with RA, and more diffuse social relationships were more strongly correlated with psychological well-being.

TL;DR: It revealed that more diffuse social relationships were more affected by RA, and scores for social relationship were as strongly related to depressed mood over time as were disease and disability variables.

TL;DR: General practitioners are aware of the public health impact of this condition and express a preference for educational material of direct relevance to the care of their patients, therefore better cooperation between primary and secondary care should lead to ways of breaking down barriers to change in clinical practice and promoting fully integrated care of patients with osteoporosis.

TL;DR: Turner-Stokes et al. as mentioned in this paper compared the efficacy of group-based multidisciplinary versus an individual therapy model for chronic pain management in adults with chronic pain, and found that the two programs appeared to be equally efficacious for pain management.

TL;DR: Self-monitoring has the potential to reduce the pressure placed on secondary care services, but this may lead to increase in services elsewhere in the system, and how these findings affect healthcare costs is needed.