BACKGROUND Use of available interpreter services by hospital clinical staff is often suboptimal, despite evidence that trained interpreters contribute to quality of care and patient safety. Examination of intra-hospital variations in attitudes and practices regarding interpreter use can contribute to identifying factors that facilitate good practice. The purpose of this study was to describe at...

BACKGROUND Despite Southern Norway is an endemic area for Lyme borreliosis there is a lack of data on Lyme arthritis (LA). In the literature controversies exist if acute LA can develop into chronic arthritis. Our objective was to identify and characterize patients with LA in Southern Norway and explore disease course after antibiotic treatment. METHODS Patients aged 20 years or older with art...

BACKGROUND The value of community-based cancer research has long been recognized. In addition to the National Cancer Institute's Community Clinical and Minority-Based Oncology Programs established in 1983, and 1991 respectively, the National Cancer Institute established the National Cancer Institute Community Cancer Centers Program in 2007 with an aim of enhancing access to high-quality cancer ...

Background: Awareness of dental students’ views from the clinical departments will help on developing strategies for qualitative and quantitative improvement of clinical skills. The purpose of this study was an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the clinical departments of Babol dental school, from students' views point, to provide feedback for improving of clinical skills training. ...

BACKGROUND The inpatient morbidity and mortality of acute kidney injury (AKI) vary considerably in different clinical units, yet studies to compare the difference remain limited. METHODS We compared the clinical characteristics of AKI in Intensive Care Unit (ICU), medical and surgical departments by using the data derived from the 2013 nationwide cross-sectional survey of AKI in China to capt...

This paper is intended as a report on some results of recent work in physical medicine and rheumatology in Switzerland. Since 1940 education in physical medicine, including medical hydrology and climatology, has been compulsory for all medical students. Thus there are chairs for physical medicine in all medical faculties; three of these are professorships, yet several institutes for physical th...

Objective To investigate parents' experiences of follow-up by general practitioners (GPs) of children with intellectual disabilities (ID) and comorbid behavioural and/or psychological problems. Design Qualitative study based on in-depth interviews with parents of children with ID and a broad range of accompanying health problems. Setting County centred study in Norway involving primary and sp...

During the 1980s and 1990s, many Irish hospitals utilized a RIS system developed and supported by Keogh software. This system assigned workunits to different radiologic studies. The figures used were often erroneously utilized to assess radiologist activity. In fact, the workunit allocations were originally intended to reflect radiographer workload, and were heavily weighted to reflect the hosp...

The kingdom of Denmark (excluding Greenland and the Faeroe isles) covers 43 080 square kilometres between 55 and 58 degrees north and 8 and 12.5 degrees east. The population on 1 January 1986 was 5.1 million. The medical care system is organized into a private sector of general practitioners and specialists under contract with the National Health Insurance, and a public sector operating hospita...

OBJECTIVE To examine the added value of measuring and possibly presenting patient experiences at the department level, in addition to the hospital level, and to explore the possibility that patient experiences differ according to the 'type' of hospital department. DESIGN Secondary analysis of data from a widely used survey on patient experiences of Dutch inpatient hospital care [Consumer Qual...