BACKGROUND Trauma management includes the care provided both in hospital and by emergency medical systems in the community. In many cases it is the parents who decide where to take an injured child for care, depending on the circumstances and severity of the injury, the personal characteristics of the injured or the carer and the availability and accessibility of services. OBJECTIVES To exami...

The elderly population will grow rapidly over the next 25 years, however there is little information about hospital infections in this group of patients in Brazil. We examined the prevalence of nosocomial and community infections in elderly ((3) 65 years) patients and their relationship with intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors in a Brazilian University Hospital. A total of 155 hospitalized eld...

The yearly admissions of tetanus, both neonatal and post-neonatal, in the last 11 years from 1983 to 1993 as well as the total pediatric admissions in the corresponding years in the Pediatric Department of LNJPN Hospital were found out from the hospital records. The contribution of tetanus to Pediatric hospitalizations was worked out by expressing the tetanus admissions as a percentage of the t...

Personal characteristics of patients and environmental factors at psychiatric hospitals have been identified as predictors of absconding. This study seeks to establish a relationship between time of the year and absconding. All characteristics of absconders were analysed over a two-year period using hospital records (N= 104). Public holidays and lunar phases were obtained through almanacs for e...