Planned surgical admissions in a district hospital.

Planned surgical admissions in a district hospital.

Epsom District Hospital, which has 527 beds, serves a population of about 172 000 in the Mid-Surrey District. At the start of the trial the unit had 22 acute adult beds and a variable number of children's beds in the main hospital. There is a preconvalescent hospital seven miles away where a further four or five beds may be available. These are for patients who have had operations but who are n...

Patterns of Admissions to a Referral Skin Hospital in Iran

Background: Inpatient therapy in dermatology offers a number of advantages in several ways i.e. careful monitoring of patients’ conditions, improvement of their skin lesions under the supervision of trained staff, absence of domestic pressure and increasing the quality of patients’ life index. The objective of this study was to describe the patterns of admission for patients with dermatological...

Surgical management of ectopic pregnancy in a district general hospital.

The mainstay of management of ectopic pregnancies is laparoscopic surgery. Other treatment options include open laparotomy, methotrexate or expectant approach. Recently the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) revised its guidelines regarding management of suspected ectopic pregnancies. We undertook a retrospective study looking at management of ectopic pregnancies over a de...

Epidemiology of Orthopaedic Trauma Admissions Over One Year in a District General Hospital in England

INTRODUCTION Admission to district general hospitals in England has undergone change in recent years due to both an aging population and the reconfiguration of the major trauma network throughout the United Kingdom. METHODS We utilised a retrospective cohort study to analyse the epidemiology over a 12-month period at a district general hospital. Data was collected and divided into groups: upp...

Admissions with atrial fibrillation: disease patterns and outcomes in a District General Hospital.