Incompetent Hospital Management.

Immuno - incompetent Patients *

An aggressive surgical approach was used in the diagnosis and treatment of seven immuno-incompetent padents who presented with focal thoracic mass lesions. In five of the seven patients, minor diagnostic procedures had failed to provide a diagnosis. All seven patients were subjected to exploratory thoracotomy with resection and/or drainage of the involved area. Two patients had parenchyinal mas...

Incompetent misdemeanants--pseudocivil commitment.

Prior to Jackson v. Indiana, psychiatric hospitalization of those found to be incompetent to stand trial often led to an inordinately long confinement, a particularly invidious consequence if the patient had been accused only of a misdemeanor. After a highly publicized murder perpetrated by a patient originally in this category, New York State instituted a rather cumbersome set of procedures de...

Hospital management of diabetes.

The evidence continues to strengthen our understanding that improved glycemic control with the use of insulin therapy may significantly improve morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients with hyperglycemia, with or without a previous diagnosis of diabetes. However, many questions remain concerning the impact and relative contributions of blood glucose and insulin per se. Nevertheless, the...

Is There an Immunologically Incompetent Lymphocyte?

UKCC will deal with incompetent practice.

NURSES WHOSE competence is 'just above acceptable levels' continue to practise because there are no mechanisms in place to measure or deal with the problem, a UKCC seminar heard last week.