This is the first of two articles on the Consensus Development Conference on Inpatient Diabetes Control, which was sponsored by the American College of Endocrinology and held in Washington, DC, 14 –15 December 2003. Donald Bergman (New York, NY), President of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, suggested the importance of endocrinologists beginning “to partner . . . for pract...

The aim of this study was to establish rates of posttraumatic stress symptoms in mothers after a child's admission to a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and their views on the potential value of a follow up appointment with PICU staff. Thirty-four mothers completed the Parental Stressor Scale:PICU, the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) and the Impact of Event Scale, 8 months after disc...

Researchers have the need for improved coordination and continuity of care in health-care environments, but little research has been undertaken to better understand how coordination occurs and how it might be improved. Using Klein’s (2001) phases of coordination this exploratory study provides a profile of the contributions of role-based communications to team coordination in an Intensive Care ...

MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY OF MRSA AMONG PATIENTS AND EMPLOYEES IN A SURGICAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

The use that general practitioners made of the mobile coronary care unit operating from a district general hospital was monitored. Over half of the patients referred by their general practitioners to hospital with suspected acute myocardial infarction were removed by the mobile unit rather than by an ordinary ambulance. However, general practitioner selection of the more compromised patient for...

This is a descriptive study with the aim of examining the nursing diagnoses labels and actions prescribed by nurses in the clinical records of patients hospitalized in an Adult Intensive Care Unit. A sample of 44 clinical records was obtained and a total of 1087 nursing diagnoses and 2260 nursing actions were identified. After exclusion of repetitions 28 different nursing diagnoses labels and 1...

BACKGROUND The aims of the present study were to investigate clinically relevant patient and environment-related predictive factors for threats and violent incidents the first three days in a PICU population based on evaluations done at admittance. METHODS In 2000 and 2001 all 118 consecutive patients were assessed at admittance to a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). Patient-related con...

BACKGROUND The sitting position, rather than squatting, during defecation has been hypothesized to be a risk factor for colorectal cancer (CRC). METHODS We conducted a case-control study to test this hypothesis.A total of 100 CRC cases from two hospitals in Iran and 100 control subjects, selected from the coronary care unit (CCU) of those same hospitals were selected for this study. We administ...