Background. This study, undertaken in major tertiary hospital in northern Nigeria, examined the morbidity and mortality patterns of hospitalised adult HIV/AIDS patients in the HAART era. Methods. Between January 2006 and December 2009, admission records and causes of deaths of hospitalised medical HIV-infected patients were retrieved and analysed according to antiretroviral (ART) status. Result...

BACKGROUND Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis is effective in the prevention of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) in medical patients. METHODS A retrospective chart review was performed on medical inpatients at two academic hospitals in Hamilton, Ontario to investigate if patients received VTE prophylaxis as per current guidelines. RESULTS An analysis was performe...

INTRODUCTION The persistent morbidity and mortality related to pharmaceutical treatment for hospitalised patients mean that it is necessary to identify scientific criteria for implementing and evaluating Pharmaceutical Care (phC) on the hospital setting. OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study is to perform a systematic literature review in order to locate, select and analyse studies on implementi...

The incidence and clinical features of human coronaviruses (HCoVs) among Brazilian patients with respiratory illness are not well known. We investigated the prevalence of HCoVs among Brazilian outpatients and hospitalised patients with respiratory illnesses during 2009 and 2010. To identify the HCoVs, pancoronavirus and species-specific reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction assays wer...

BACKGROUND Throughout history, visitation of the hospitalised child has always been restricted. The subject of whether hospitalised children should be visited by other children has been accorded minimal attention. OBJECTIVE To determine the current status of visitation of the hospitalised children and the parents and healthcare providers'views on hospitalised children being visited by other c...

SUMMARY Personality disorders (PDs) are associated with increased overall mortality. In patients hospitalised with a principal diagnosis of PD, this is observed for all clusters and for natural as well as unnatural causes of death. Data from Swedish nationwide registers were used to assess whether this was also true for the majority of patients diagnosed with PDs not severe enough to lead to ho...

Background: This tertiary hospital is the referall centre of 360.000 inhabitants, population with a Covid seroprevalence 8,4% at final 2020. Since march, we have had special concern for rheumatologic patients systemic diseases and under inmunosupressive agents, including disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) biological therapy (BT). why protocol this was set. It included performance se...