A new Medicare rule that will take effect October 2008 will prevent hospitals from receiving payment for the costs of treating certain hospitalacquired infections and conditions. This Note argues that the rule is unlikely to reduce the frequency of hospital-acquired conditions. The rule is based on the erroneous assumption that distorted financial incentives are responsible for the high rate of...

OBJECTIVE  To examine the relative risks of iatrogenic and non-iatrogenic injuries during the period shortly before and after a diagnosis of cancer. DESIGN  Nationwide register based study. SETTING  Swedish national population and health registers. PARTICIPANTS  720 901 patients with diagnosis of cancer, 1991-2009, in Sweden. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES  All hospital admissions in patients wi...

Choroidal neovascularisation developed in 62/66 (94%) eyes followed up for a mean period of 11.2 years after treatment with xenon arc feeder vessel coagulation for proliferative sickle retinopathy (PSR). In 27 eyes the neovascularisation was chorioretinal alone and in 35 eyes choriovitreal. Chorioretinal neovascularisation (CRN) was a benign complication but may convert to choriovitreal neovasc...