professor rodney grahame
professor rodney grahame
professor rodney grahame
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• 266,264 new rheumatology referrals in England(**)<br />
• If 45% have JHS/EDSHM phenotype<br />
• 119,809 new JHS patients attending clinics p.a.<br />
• 536 consultants in England!<br />
• Each consultant should be seeing 224 new JHS p.a.<br />
• Equivalent to 4.3/week!<br />
• BSR members, when asked assert it is 10 p.a. (*)<br />
• Equivalent to 94.52% shortfall!<br />
• Only 4.67% are being recognised!<br />
• Equivalent to > 100,000 cases annually<br />
** DOH statistics<br />
* BSR members ‘ hypermobility syndrome perceptions survey, 1999<br />
[Grahame R, Bird H. Rheumatology 40 (5):559 -62 , 2001]
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