Rheumatology

Rheumatology history

  • HPC
    • Pain
    • Stiffness
    • Timing of symptoms
      • OA – morning stiffness, pain worse after activity
      • Inflammatory arthritis – morning pain and stiffness, pain often improves with activity, bilateral, smaller joints affected first
    • Loss of function / ADLs
    • Prodromal events – URTIs, diarrhoea, STI, insect bites, vaccinations
  • PMH
    • Skin disease, GI disease, STIs
  • FH
  • SH
    • social support