Patents running out: time to take stock of robotic surgery

Marine oils for antiinflammatory effect -- time to take stock.

Nutritional therapy in acute pancreatitis--time to take stock.

Acute pancreatitis (AP) remains a formidable disease with significant mortality and major morbidity. The nutritional issues are at least as complex and controversial as other facets of therapy. AP is diabetogenic and catabolic and affects all major organ systems including the intestine. As early as 1973, it became one of the first non-surgical indications for parenteral nutrition (PN) [1]. The ...

Internal medicine residency redesign: time to take stock.

During the past few years, the internal medicine community has engaged in a serious discussion about the need to redesign internal medicine residency training to ensure that residents are prepared to provide high-quality care to the patients whom they are likely to encounter when they enter practice. In 2005, persons within the internal medicine community published several articles (1–3) noting...

Quality and Outcomes Framework: time to take stock.

We are now living in the seventh annual cycle of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF). So ingrained has QOF become for everyone working in UK primary care, that it is hard to imagine life before QOF. It is hard too, to recall the revolutionary changes that accompanied its arrival. Prior to QOF, there were just two targets for general practice in the UK: childhood immunisations and cervical ...

An Audit of Perioperative Antimicrobial Prophylaxis: Time to Take Action