Patient dissatisfaction may be underreported

Suicides may be overreported and accidents underreported among fatalities due to dextropropoxyphene.

Among prescribed drugs in Sweden dextropropoxyphene (DXP) is the medical compound most frequently responsible for self-inflicted fatal poisonings. To analyze the process leading to the classification of the manner of death in cases of fatalities where DXP caused or contributed to death, a set of explicit and implicit operational criteria was applied retrospectively to fatal DXP poisonings among...

AdipoRon may be benefit for atherosclerosis prevention

Atherosclerosis has serious role in coronary arteries disease,so it is important to establish effective strategies for prevention or even treatment of atherosclerosis. Adiponectin, as one of the most abundant adipokines, has insulin sensitivity, anti-inflammatory and anti-atherogenic properties. Disturbed adiponectin actions through its receptor, (AdipoR1 and AdipoR2) may be involved in atheros...

Underreported, underacknowledged: child abuse can no longer be ignored.

Child abuse is a serious problem in Hong Kong, and the recent Tin Shui Wai tragedy and assault of a 7-year-old boy have caused considerable public concern. Over the past 5 years, the number of new child abuse cases reported to the Child Protection Registry (CPR) by the Social Welfare Department has been increasing, and has recently risen by more than 50% from 622 cases in 2004 to 406 cases in j...

Emergency Medicine specialty May Improve Patient Satisfaction

The therapist's legal duty when the patient may be violent.

This article reviews the legal basis for the psychiatrist's duty to protect third parties who are foreseeably endangered by their patients. Cases illustrating how courts decide whether the duty exists and whether it was violated are presented. Courts are impressed by, and clinicians should know about, threats to particular individuals, existence of a credible motive for violence, and a past his...