Decreasing trend and changing indications of hysterectomy in Finland

Changing Indications and Risk Factors for Peripartum Hysterectomy

Background: To determine the changing indications and risk factors for Peripartum Hysterectomy (PH), comparing the present times with the nineteen eighties. Methods: This retrospective comparative study was conducted in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Unit-II) at Holy Family Hospital, Rawalpindi. Data of patients undergoing PH over a five-year period in the nineteen eighties, exte...

Laparoscopic Hysterectomy Outcome and Complications in Finland

Ten-year experience with 733 pancreatic resections: changing indications, older patients, and decreasing length of hospitalization.

HYPOTHESIS Experience with pancreatic resection for the last 10 years has resulted in new trends in patient characteristics and, for pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD), a decrease in the length of stay (LOS). This decrease is due in part to the implementation of case management and clinical pathways. DESIGN Retrospective case series of patients undergoing pancreatic resection. SETTING A universit...

Changing status of doctors in Finland.

This short sociological study discusses the changing status of doctors, in regard to both non-medical administrators and the public. Though based on observations in Finland I also see similar trends in other countries, trends which are associated with rapid social change in the West generally. These developments will lead to changes in the esteem in which a community holds its doctors.

Indications of decreasing human PTS concentrations in North West Russia

BACKGROUND The Russian Arctic covers an enormous landmass with diverse environments. It inhabits more than 20 different ethnic groups, all of them with various living conditions and food traditions. Indigenous populations with a traditional way of living are exposed to a large number of anthropogenic pollutants, such as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and toxic metals, mainly through the d...