Improving access to pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with COPD treated for substance misuse in the London Borough of Islington by Duncan Stewart, Jane Simpson, Divya Narasimhan

“…Substance misusers with COPD have more severe symptoms and poorer health outcomes than other COPD patients, and experience inequalities in accessing PR services.This project aimed to work with a local substance misuse service to increase the referrals of patients with COPD with a history of drug and/or alcohol problems to a PR programme in the London Borough of Islington. Quality improvement methods were used to explore barriers to accessing PR and to identify ways of making referral to PR easier. …”
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Othello Syndrome Secondary to Ropinirole: A Case Study by Kakali Pal, Abigail Smith, Joseph Hayes, Apu Chakraborty

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Short-term abstinence from alcohol and changes in cardiovascular risk factors, liver function tests and cancer-related growth factors: a prospective observational study by Gautam Mehta, Rajiv Jalan, Matteo Rosselli, James Maurice, Stewart Macdonald, Alexandra Cronberg, Tanya Khera-Butler, Colin Sumpter, Safa Al-Khatib, Anjly Jain, Christos Charalambous, Amir Gander, Cynthia Ju, Talay Hakan, Roy Sherwood, Devaki Nair, Kevin P Moore

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