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S B P S
Scottish Bell's Palsy Study |
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Welcome |
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How to Refer a Patient |
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What is Bell’s Palsy? |
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What is the S B P S? |
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Who’s Who |
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The Trial Sites |
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The Patient’s Experience |
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Graeme’s Story |
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House-Brackmann Scale |
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The Questionnaires |
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Documentation |
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Legal Stuff |
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Links to other web sites |
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Briefing notes for GPs, A&E, OOH |
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It will be very helpful if prior to their departure for the nearest or most convenient clinic you could provide the patient with a printed copy of the
GPs please note
There are some exclusion criteria for the Scottish Bell’s Palsy Study. If your usual approach to a Bell’s Palsy is to treat the condition yourself and not refer to an acute receiving clinic then you can save your patient a wasted journey* if you know he/she would not be eligible to join the study. The exclusion criteria are
is the patient already on a trial?
and any of the following conditions
a systemic infection
* Patients who are found to be ineligible only after arrival at the receiving clinic, or who decline to join the study, will be treated by the receiving clinician. |
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Recruitment to the Scottish Bell’s Palsy Study ceased on 30th June 2006.
Please do not advise new patients of the study or refer them to former local hospital receiving sites for randomisation.
It is recommended that professional colleagues should return to their normal clinical practice for this condition, to use steroids and / or antivirals, or not, until the results of the trial are known.
The Trial Steering Committee, Principal Investigators and researchers would like to express the greatest possible appreciation to general practitioners, out-of-hours premises, A&E departments and NHS24 for their contribution to the successful conclusion of the recruitment stage of this study, which reached its target one day ahead of schedule and finally closed with two patients in hand. |
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NO LONGER RECRUITING |