Retrospective Notes on Out-Patient Practice

Polypharmacy in psychiatric out-patient practice in northern Nigeria.

OBJECTIVE To describe and analyze patterns of polypharmacy among psychiatric outpatients in northern Nigeria and identify predictors of psychotropic polypharmacy. METHOD A cross-sectional study, using chart review of new patients at out-patient clinics of two regional psychiatric hospitals in northern Nigeria,measuring rates, patterns and predictors of psychotropic polypharmacy. RESULTS A t...

Notes of Hospital Practice

13y C. Macnamaka. I.?Post-mortem examination of a nine months' foetus, stillborn, mother having had an attach of Asiatic cholera. Tjte following case is worth recording, an opportunity having been afforded of examining the condition of a nine months' foetus, the mother having immediately before giving birth to the child, suffered from a very severe attack of Asiatic cholera. Instances of this d...

Notes on patient compensation system suggestion

Neuroprognostication following out of hospital cardiac arrest - a retrospective study of departmental practice

Introduction Predicting those who are likely to survive with good neurological outcome following out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is important for patients, their carers and society however prognostication following OHCA is difficult. The European Resuscitation Council and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) have published an advisory statement regarding prognostication...

Disturbing the Doxa of Patient Safety; Comment on “False Dawns and New Horizons in Patient Safety Research and Practice”

In a recent edition of this journal, Mannion and Braithwaite provide a succinct analysis of the emergence, and ultimately limited impact, of what they term the current ‘Safety I’ movement in healthcare. They describe the arc of this field from denial, through engagement via mechanisms and approaches imported from other industries, to the current situation where, despite ‘best efforts,’ error ra...