BACKGROUND In May 2005 the Obstetric Anaesthetists' Association (OAA) and Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland published a document entitled Guidelines for Obstetric Anaesthetic Services. This survey investigated if standards recommended in this document were being met more than six months after its release. METHODS An OAA-approved questionnaire was sent to all obstetric ...

Caused by legal reform initiatives there is a continuous need to increase effectiveness and efficiency in hospitals and surgeries, and thus to improve processes. Consequently the successful management of radiological departments and surgeries requires suitable structures and optimization processes to make optimization in the fields of medical quality, service quality and efficiency possible. In...

Background: Health Care Workers (HCW’s) are disproportionately at high risk to acquire COVID-19, through their close and extended contact in outpatient, inpatient departments, operation theatres. This study aims compare anosmia ageusia COVID-19 positive health workers clinical non-clinical categories who tested for COVID-19.Methods: A retrospective Institutional was performed on 106 HCW’s of de...

BACKGROUND References have been made in the literature to the funding of clinical trials by the pharmaceutical industry. Other types of funding, however, have been less well studied. OBJECTIVE To describe the sources of funding for research by Spanish dermatology departments published in 2008. MATERIAL AND METHODS A bibliometric study was performed of the research articles published by Span...

BACKGROUND In this article we present the basic methodological aspects of the clinical epidemiologic study Alergológica-2005, a project launched by the Spanish Society of Allergology and Clinical Immunology replicating the objectives and methods of a similar study carried out in 1992. OBJECTIVE The aim of this nation-wide study was to describe the profile of the patients treated in Spanish al...

BACKGROUND Drug allergy comprises 10% to 30% of all adverse drug reactions, and according to data from the literature, sensitivity to drug allergens is 2 to 3 times more common in health care workers than in the general population. OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to estimate the prevalence of self-reported drug allergy in health care workers and compare the data obtained between doctors...

BACKGROUND While extensive data support the clinical benefit and cost-effectiveness of routine thromboprophylaxis in surgical patients, the use of this approach in medical patients has been controversial. However, recent data, mainly from the MEDENOX trial, support routine thromboprophylaxis in acutely ill medical patients. AIM To determine attitudes towards VTE prevention in such patients, i...