The programmed investigation unit (PIU) is a inpatient unit where a full range of investigational medicine can be organised. It provides the basic minimum nursing care and is suitable for ambulant patients who can care for themselves. Requests for admission to the PIU at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, come directly from clinical units, and the staff of these units perform so...

OBJECTIVE To assess the diagnostic and prognostic efficacy of urine neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin in patients admitted to an intensive care unit. METHODS Longitudinal, prospective cohort study conducted in a cardiology intensive care unit. The participants were divided into groups with and without acute kidney injury and were followed from admission to the intensive care unit unt...

We show that if a knot has a minimal spanning surface that admits certain Gabai disks, then this knot has Property P. As one of the applications we extend and simplify a recent result of Menasco and Zhang that closed 3-braid knots have Property P. Other applications are given.

In this article, the author describes the development of a medical admissions unit. He also highlights the introduction of an advanced nurse practitioner role and the contribution this has made to raising the quality of patient care.

The growth of British day surgery over the last decade has been a success story. Quality patient care should be the goal for all involved in day surgery and the number of unintended hospital admissions is now recognised as a significant clinical indicator of good day practice. This Cambridge retrospective analysis indicates that, of the 31117 day cases studied over an 8-year period, 425 admissi...

We show that if a knot has a minimal spanning surface that admits certain Gabai disks, then this knot has Property P. As one of the applications we extend and simplify a recent result of Menasco and Zhang that closed 3-braid knots have Property P. Other applications are given.

INTRODUCTION Higher mortality for patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) during the weekends has been occasionally reported with conflicting results that could be related to organisational factors. We investigated the effects of ICU organisational and staffing patterns on the potential association between weekend admission and outcomes in critically ill patients. METHODS We included...

BACKGROUND Treatment of acute heart failure in the emergency department (ED) or observation unit is an alternative to hospitalization. Both ED management and observation unit management have been associated with reduced costs and may be used to avoid penalties related to rehospitalizations. The purpose of this study was to examine trends in ED visits for heart failure and disposition following ...

background and aims: cardiac surgery patients are at high risk of pressure ulcers. in the present study, we determined the incidence of pressure ulcer in patients who were admitted to open heart cardiac surgery intensive care unit and related risk factors. methods: with using convenience sampling all the eligible patients who were admitted to boali cardiac surgery during june to august 2015 wer...