Thyroid cancer is a complex disease requiring management by large multidisciplinary team. The number of patients with diagnosis thyroid significantly increasing year-on-year, and traditional models consultant-led follow up are no longer sustainable. Although nurse-led follow-up clinics becomining increasingly common, rare. An excellent understanding the disease, treatment risk recurrence essent...

BACKGROUND Prescribing is a complex task with potential for many types of error to occur. Despite the introduction of a standard national medication chart for Australian hospital inpatients in 2006, simple prescribing errors are common. AIM To compare the effect of quality improvement initiatives on the rate of simple prescribing errors. DESIGN A prospective, multisite comparison of prescri...

ARACELIS D. FERNANDEZ, MD (bottom right), is a third-year fellow in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at The New York Hospital – Cornell University. She did her pediatric residency at The Children’s Hospital at Albany Medical Center. Emerging bacterial resistance patterns suggest that clinicians should use restraint in prescribing antibiotics for various infections. We used pharyngitis as the model...