Introduction: Improvements in newborn intensive care led to decreased mortality, but increased the morbidity rates of preterm infants. This study have designed to evaluate the short- term outcome in premature infants admitted to NICU at Amirkola Children Hospital(ACH) , northern Iran from Mar20,2010- Mar21,2011 Methods: All the premature infants admitted to NICU and newborn services from Mar20...

Up to 10% of asthmatics have "difficult asthma"; however, they account for 80% of asthma-related expenditure and run the highest risk of acute severe exacerbations. An estimated 75% of admissions for asthma are avoidable. Guidelines advise that these patients be managed by an experienced specialist multidisciplinary team (MDT). We aimed to assess the impact of a case management strategy deliver...

Background: Although most cases of drug eruptions are mildand self-limited and are relieved after discontinuation of theresponsible drugs, statistics of life threatening outcomes shouldbe kept in mind. Moreover, it is important to identify the mostcommon age and sex groups, and the most vulnerable groupsin any area related to offending drugs. Thus, we collected thebasic information of patients ...

Objectives We aim to explore differences in mortality between patients admitted during working hours (8am-5pm on weekdays and 8am-11am on weekends) compared to those admitted after hours. Methods This is a retrospective cohort study of admissions to a medical ICU in a tertiary teaching hospital between 2010-2014. All patients with known APACHE II scores were analysed. Primary outcome measure wa...

Methods All patients admitted to the ED at Hilleroed Hospital were registered during a 6-months period from September 2009 to March 2010. The ED has approximately 50,000 patient contacts annually, a level 2 Trauma centre and the following specialties: Internal Medicine, Neurology, Surgery and Orthopaedics. Paediatric patients (medicine) and patients to Obstetrics/Gynaecology are admitted direct...

The main aim of this study was to evaluate cardiovascular and respiratory outcomes attributed to PM10 in Kermanshah, Iran. In order to gather data, an Environmental Dust Monitor instrument was used at 3 stations throughout the city at a height of at least 3 m above the ground. We obtained an input file for the model from crude data and quantified PM10 using the AirQ model. Our estimation showed...

Background: In this study we sought to investigate clinical findings (with a focus on neurologic effects) and also to analyze outcomes of a series of patients with methanol poisoning admitted to two poisoning treatment centers in Tehran, Iran. Methods: In this prospective cross-sectional study, methanol-poisoned patients admitted to departments of forensic medicine and toxicology of Loghman Hak...

Methods We evaluated the following: The percentage of mis-referrals to stationary wards, i. e. transferals to another specialty than the one chosen by the emergency department within 24 hours. The percentage of re-admitted patients within 30 days after discharge. For assessment we searched the National Patient Registry for all patients admitted to the ED during 2010 compared to 2008, i.e. the y...

OBJECTIVE Since 2010, National Health Service hospitals in England have been incentivised to risk assess for Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) in all adult patients admitted, using a national tool. We studied the impact of this, together with local real-time reporting of VTE events to senior clinicians, on cases of hospital-acquired thrombosis (HAT) diagnosed, since 2010. METHODS This was an obser...