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Autor:
Hugh A Smythe
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Rheumatology. 37:2448-2451
Any fool can predict the future; politicians and investment counselors do it all the time. Modeling past medical and financial events accurately remains a major challenge. Percent change is commonly used in these and other fields of measurement. Quan
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Arthroplasty. 25:945-950
In a prospective study, total hip arthroplasty (THA) patients were assessed preoperatively and postoperatively (n = 95) to determine if tender points (TPs) are associated with poor THA outcomes. Patients with high follow-up TP counts had higher visua
Autor:
Hugh A Smythe
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Rheumatology. 36:679-683
The symptoms of “fibromyalgia” are due to the interaction between referred pain and amplifying factors. Given that Moldofsky and I described pain amplification related to measurable sleep disturbances1, we yield to no one in recognition of neural
Autor:
Hugh A. Smythe
Publikováno v:
Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology. 29:8-12
Many authors have suggested that chronic pain syndromes are psychosocial in origin; maladaptive behaviours favoured by psychosocial and political factors. Sometimes this may be true, but neither the individual patients nor the accumulated scientific
Autor:
Hugh H. Smythe, Paul Bradley
Publikováno v:
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 83:877-879
Publikováno v:
Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain. 4:29-35
Objectives: To compare two methods for assessing tenderness in children: an 18-site point count by manual palpation and dolorimetry in nine tender point sites and four control sites. Methods: Nonarticular tenderness was measured in 338 healthy childr
Autor:
Hugh A Smythe
Publikováno v:
The Journal of rheumatology. 38(6)
In this issue of The Journal Dr. Wolfe and colleagues introduce 2 new and different protocols (there have been many prior versions) to identify what they call “fibromyalgianess”1,2. In what ways are the new proposals unhelpful? Dilution (the incl
Autor:
Charles H. Goldsmith, Peter Lee, Hugh A. Smythe, Helewa A, B. Hanes, Claire Bombardier, Peter Tugwell
Publikováno v:
The Lancet. 337:1453-1456
Because there is little information about the efficacy of home occupational therapy, we decided to assess the effects of a home service on patients with rheumatoid arthritis. 105 patients aged 18-70 years, on stable medical therapy, were randomised t
Autor:
Earl R. Bogoch, Hugh A. Smythe
Publikováno v:
The Journal of rheumatology. 35(12)
ObjectiveTo examine commonly used measures and analytic techniques of pain outcomes, using (1) a synthetic model, and (2) a cohort of patients who underwent total hip replacement.Methods(1) A synthetic data set was constructed with 110 visual analog
Autor:
Stephen M. Campbell, I. Jon Russell, Frederick Wolfe, Claire Bombardier, Daniel Hamaty, Stephen J. Farber, Adel G. Fam, Robert M. Bennett, Robert A. Gatter, C. Michael Franklin, Patricia Clark, James A. Lessard, Alfonse T. Masi, Muhammad B. Yunus, Don L. Goldenberg, Thomas J. Romano, Peter Tugwell, W. John Reynolds, Robert P. Sheon, Micha Abeles, Alan S. Lichtbroun, Hugh A. Smythe, Glenn A. McCain, Justus J. Fiechtner
Publikováno v:
Arthritis & Rheumatism. 33:160-172
To develop criteria for the classification of fibromyalgia, we studied 558 consecutive patients: 293 patients with fibromyalgia and 265 control patients. Interviews and examinations were performed by trained, blinded assessors. Control patients for t