Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a disease-specific risk factor for incident and recurrent venous thromboembolism (VTE). The reasons are acquired, multifactorial, and related to prothrombotic aberrations during active disease, although the mechanisms remain incompletely elucidated. VTE represents a potentially life-threatening extraintestinal manifestation of IBD, but the associated morbidit...

Hospitalised patients' needs are complex and the ward environment is demanding of time and resources that must be optimised. Clinical ward rounds in hospitalised patients are fundamental to patient care. Ward rounds in recent years have undergone changes which have contributed to reduced professionalism and opportunities to learn as well as increased distrust of patients of the care they receiv...

INTRODUCTION To reduce the burden on injury survivors and their supporters, factors associated with poor outcomes need to be identified so that timely post-injury interventions can be implemented. To date, few studies have investigated outcomes for both those who were hospitalised and those who were not. AIM To describe the prevalence and to identify pre-injury and injury-related predictors o...

BACKGROUND The main objective of this study was to describe the patients who were hospitalised at Oslo University Hospital Aker during the first wave of pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) in Norway. METHODS Clinical data on all patients hospitalised with influenza-like illness from July to the end of November 2009 were collected prospectively. Patients with confirmed H1N1 Influenza A were compared t...

BACKGROUND Patients with stable COPD show improvements in exercise capacity and muscular function after the application of whole body vibration. We aimed to evaluate whether this modality added to conventional physiotherapy in exacerbated hospitalised COPD patients would be safe and would improve exercise capacity and quality of life. METHODS 49 hospitalised exacerbated COPD patients were ran...

The aim of the present study was to analyse the role of potential selection processes and their impact when evaluating risk factors for 30-day mortality among patients hospitalised for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). A cohort of 26,039 patients aged > or = 35 yrs and hospitalised with COPD were enrolled. A 30-day follow-up was carried out using both the cause mortality register (C...

INTRODUCTION The incidence of tuberculosis depends on many factors, not only on health issues but also on socioeconomic factors. The aim of this study was to assess the duration of symptoms and the extent of radiological changes in men with bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis in relation to their socioeconomic status. MATERIAL AND METHODS This was a retrospective study based on...

Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) strains have been increasingly reported in Belgium. We aimed to determine the proportion of CPE among Enterobacteriaceae isolated from hospitalised patients and community outpatients in Belgium in 2015. For the hospitalised patients, the results were compared to a previous similar survey performed in the same hospitals in 2012. Twenty-four hospit...

To cite: Grant PJ, Flanders SA. BMJ Qual Saf Published Online First: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2015004612 Hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a leading cause of preventable death in hospitalised patients and its prevention with pharmacological prophylaxis has been rated a top patient safety practice. Furthermore, the rate at which VTE prophylaxis is adminis...