“Measurement matters, but only when it changes decisions.” Patient-reported outcome science has spent three decades proving that what patients experience is as important as what clinicians observe. ...
"It's not the cumulative steroid dosage, but the toxicity the patients experience - that's what really matters." Dr Ewa Olech's journey from medical student in Poland to Senior Medical Director at ...
"We explain to our patients that steroids will help to control the inflammation in the liver, but can cause a number of side effects in the short and longer term." Autoimmune hepatitis is an ...
"Kids aren't small adults. You have to score growth, puberty, and neurodevelopment, and weigh a symptom's impact differently in a two-year-old versus a fourteen-year-old." When Professor Paul Brogan ...
“If the issue were just to treat sarcoidosis, I would put everyone on 40 milligrams of prednisone, and every granuloma would be destroyed. But I'm not treating sarcoidosis disease. I'm treating the ...