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Helping patients to help themselves: the future for management of ulcerative colitis?
Gastroenterology Unit, City Hospital NHS Trust, Dudley Rd, Birmingham B18 7QH, UK; p.moayyedi@bham.ac.uk
Guided self management of ulcerative colitis with follow up on request, compared with traditional management, accelerates treatment provision, reduces visits to specialists and general practitioners, and does not increase morbidity
Keywords: ulcerative colitis; self management
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Ivan Illich believes that "the medical establishment has become a major threat to health".1 He reasons that the rise of modern medicine has encouraged a culture of dependency on the medical establishment rather than promoting self caring approaches to illness. This extreme viewpoint has a surprising number of supporters,2 perhaps because it contains a grain of truth. Clinicians can be paternalistic and often set up services with little regard to patient preferences or whether this is the most cost effective method of delivering health care.3 It is therefore refreshing to read the paper by Robinson et al comparing guided self management with usual care for ulcerative colitis (UC) patients in a randomised controlled trial.4 Patients were more satisfied with guided self management, and patients with relapses took steroids earlier. There was also a statistically non-significant trend for relapses to be of shorter duration. The results seem compelling, so should there
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