OBJECTIVE To investigate whether there is an increased risk of cardiovascular events in people who exhibit iatrogenic Cushing's syndrome during treatment with glucocorticoids. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING 424 UK general practices contributing to The Health Improvement Network database. PARTICIPANTS People prescribed systemic glucocorticoids and with a diagnosis of iatrogenic Cushing's syn...

Dentists encounter a wide range of hard-tissue injuries in practice. Dental extractions are one of the most common procedures in dentistry and may lead to several complications, including oral sinus complications, osteitis, infection, dysesthesia, pain, and bleeding.

(a) The autopsy should be under the jurisdiction of the coroner, magistrate or other legal authority that authorises and request an autopsy. The very fact that there is the possibility of a non-natural cause of death makes the case reportable to the coroner. This is the duty of the clinicians, but sometimes they may not be very anxious to initiate a legal enquiry which may result in criticism, ...

Iatrogenesis is a term typically reserved to express the state of ill health or the adverse outcome resulting from a medical intervention, or lack thereof. Three types of iatrogenesis are described in the literature: clinical, social and cultural. This paper introduces a fourth type, technological iatrogenesis, or emerging errors stimulated by the infusion of technological innovations into comp...

BACKGROUND Surgical procedures are now very common, with estimates ranging from 4% of the general population having an operation per annum in economically-developing countries; this rising to 8% in economically-developed countries. Whilst these surgical procedures typically result in considerable improvements to health outcomes, it is increasingly appreciated that surgery is a high risk industr...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ regulations regarding nonpayment for hospital-acquired conditions such as pressure ulcers have prompted a marked increase in focus on preventive care. Our hospital also used this change in payment policy as an opportunity to strengthen our pressure ulcer prevention practices. We used an 8-spoke prevention wheel to develop and implement practice chan...

BACKGROUND Iatrogenic illness, defined as a disease that results from a diagnostic procedure or from any form of therapy, is a well-recognized phenomenon in clinical practice. OBJECTIVES To study and evaluate major cardiac iatrogenic disease as the cause of admission to the intensive cardiac care unit in the modern era. METHODS We assessed 64 critically ill patients suffering from major car...