OBJECTIVE To determine the predictors of 30-day intra-hospital case fatality rate in patients with first-ever acute ischaemic stroke, attending a tertiary care hospital in Western Nigeria. STUDY DESIGN A cross-sectional observational study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY This study was conducted at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria between February 2003 and May 2004 (16 mo...

This paper evaluates changes in the racial and ethnic composition of admissions at three Texas universities following the judicial ban on affirmative action imposed by the 1996 Hopwood decision. We estimate the extent to which universities practiced affirmative action before the judicial ban, and evaluate how admission officers at these universities changed the relative weights accorded to vari...

INTRODUCTION Cardiopulmonary arrests may occur unexpectedly and result in high mortality rates. Saudi Arabia currently relies on data on resuscitation outcomes and factors affecting the outcome which overwhelmingly come from the United States and Western Europe. OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were thus to evaluate the outcome of patients who had a cardiac arrest that in one tertiary ...

Medical comorbidity in people with long-term mental illness is common and often undetected; however, these consumers frequently experience problems accessing and receiving appropriate treatment in public health-care services. The aim of the present study was to understand the lived experience of mental health consumers with medical comorbidity and their carers transitioning through tertiary med...

Urinary tract infections are complications found mostly in older adults undergoing hip surgery. However, little is known about the impact of urinary on health at after post-hip fracture surgery, particularly Thailand. This prospective study investigated prevalence and their length stay, functional ability, re-admission, surgical site infections, in-hospital mortality. The participants were 120 ...

BACKGROUND Antimicrobial resistance is increasingly recognized as a global challenge. A few studies have emerged on epidemiology of multidrug resistant organisms in tertiary care settings in the Arabian Gulf. AIM To describe the epidemiology of multi-drug resistant organisms (MDRO) at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, a tertiary hospital in Oman. METHODS A retrospective review of MDRO reco...

Liberia is a low-income country in West Africa that has faced significant challenges, including a civil war and the recent Ebola epidemic. Little data exists on the more current post-war and pre-Ebola trends of child health in Liberia in the rural setting. This study is a retrospective chart review of pediatric mortality in 2013 at a rural tertiary care center in Liberia, 10 years post-war. Fro...

OBJECTIVE Metastatic solid organ cancer is associated with a poor prognosis, and admission of patients with these cancers to the intensive care unit remains a dilemma. We aimed to assess outcomesin a cohort of these patients who were admitted to the ICU of a general tertiary centre. DESIGN, SETTING AND PATIENTS A retrospective observational study of patients with incurable metastatic solid or...

background: toxic exposures in childhood are major health concern. in this hospital-based study, we sought to investigate socio-epidemiological factors contributing to acute pediatric poisoning in chennai, tamil nadu, india. methods: this prospective cross-sectional study was conducted at the kanchi kamakoti childs trust hospital (kkcth), a tertiary care hospital for children in chennai. childr...

OBJECTIVE To measure the prevalence of primary drug prevention of fractures due to osteoporosis in patients admitted to a tertiary teaching hospital, in a medium-sized city, admitted with osteoporotic fractures. Moreover, to identify the incidence of prescribing secondary prophylaxis after the first fracture event. At the same time, the prevalence of risk factors for such fractures as described...