The postdischarge outcomes of court-ordered treatment of acute psychiatric inpatients have not been adequately investigated. We reviewed the medical records of all patients who refused medication for whom a court order was sought during a recent three-year period, and compared this group to control patients who agreed to treatment and a group of patients who transiently refused medication. The ...

OBJECTIVE This study examined how free-text comments from cancer survivors could complement formal patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), as part of the England PROMs survey programme for cancer. DESIGN A qualitative content analysis was conducted of responses to a single open-ended free-text question placed at the end of the cross-sectional population-based postal questionnaire. SETTIN...

After one year of practice, a medication reconciliation process in geriatric aftercare was evaluated. The objective the activity to identify treatment changes (TC). 302 patients benefited from approach, 82.2% voluntary at hospitalization discharge and 100% least change discharge. What are consequences so many what measures limit these consequences?

Introduction of the EU Landfill Directive is having a significant impact on waste management in the UK and in other member states that have relied on landfilling. This paper considers the length of the aftercare period required by the municipal solid waste streams that the UK will most probably generate following implementation of the Landfill Directive. Data were derived from literature to ide...