1 Consultant Intensivist, Cardiff University and University of Wales Hospital Cardiff 2 Consultant Microbiologist, Cardiff University and Public Health Wales 3 Consultant Intensivist and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Royal Victoria Infirmary and Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne 4 Consultant Intensivist and Acute Physician, University College London NHS Foundation Trust 5 Consultant Haemato...

Consultant-led medical admission units have been developed as one method of managing the increasing number of acute medical emergencies. The need to document such innovations and to evaluate and analyse the role of an acute care physician in meeting the problems of acute care has been emphasised. We therefore report our experience of an acute admissions unit led by a consultant physician in acu...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate whether patients with non-severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) have a shorter length of stay (LOS) when initially seen by a respiratory physician compared with a non-respiratory physician. METHODS At Nottingham City Hospital, following nurse triage, acute medical patients who are not severely ill are admitted to the consultant-led emergenc...

Steven Lewis is President, Access Consulting Ltd., Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and Adjunct Professor of Health Policy at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Mark Wahba is an emergency physician and Clinical Assistant Professor at Royal University Hospital, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Mary Smillie, former Senior Quality Improvement Consultan...

1 Department of Medicine, MM Medical College Residential Campus. Mullana Ambala Haryana, India 133203. 2 Department of Dermatology and STI, MM Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Mullana Ambala, India. Correspondence mail: [email protected]. 3 Consultant Dermatologist Bangalore India. 4 Department of Pathology, MM Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Mullana Ambala, India....

This paper reports on the development and initial end-user evaluation (after ten months in-use) of a Patient Data Analysis Information System (PDA-IS) for Geriatric Medicine. The development and evaluation is the first phase of a larger ongoing research project. The PDA-IS contains a set of high integrity patient data records (a local practice-based repository of clinical patient data) availabl...

OBJECTIVE To reduce the number of potentially inappropriate medication orders, based on the Beers' criteria, for an elderly population residing in assisted living facilities through consultant pharmacist medication review, interventions, and recommendations DESIGN Prospective case series of consultant pharmacist recommendations. PATIENTS Census of 456 residents of assisted living facilities...