Referral protocols to general pulmonology consultation: Yes we should

Yes, We Can! (Should We?).

In spite of good results with 'inject and cut', should we scrutinize it? - yes, we should!

(2) Moreover, there is no agreement on and no international standardization of diagnostic criteria, which range from subjective macroscopic aspect, real and virtual chromoendoscopy and endomicroscopic methods up to optical biopsy and high-resolution endosonography [4] . (3) The same holds true for the definition and standardization of endoscopic techniques. Procedures such as polypectomy, EMR, ...

Should we abandon the periodic health examination?: YES.

Dr Mavriplis states that it is often difficult to dedicate time for preventive care in a busy family practice. According to McWhinney,1 if every patient in a practice of 2000 had a 20-minute annual health examination, it would occupy the physician full-time for 22 weeks of every year. Another study estimated that more than 40% of all direct patient time for primary care physicians is taken up b...

Hemoptysis in a referral hospital for pulmonology.

OBJECTIVE To determine the main causes of hemoptysis and to classify this symptom, in terms of the amount of blood expectorated, in patients hospitalized at a referral hospital for pulmonology. METHODS The study included 50 patients with hemoptysis admitted to the pulmonology ward of a general hospital in the city of Recife, Brazil, between July of 2005 and February of 2006. The data of inter...

Timing of referral to consultation-liaison psychiatry.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the factors affecting the timing of psychiatric consultations and the impact of timing on length of hospital stay. It also assessed the relationships between the timing of consultations and some clinical factors. METHODS 264 adult patients consecutively referred to the psychiatric C-L service at King Khaled University Hospital in Riyadh were ...