BACKGROUND Staphylococcus aureus, a mainly acquired hospital infection is responsible for many suppurative lesions and has demonstrated the ability of developing resistance to many antimicrobial agents leading to life threatening infections and long hospital stay. OBJECTIVE To determined the prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus in suppurative lesions of the surgic...

BACKGROUND Cancer is predominantly a disease in the population aged 65 years and older. Previous studies have suggested that older cancers patients seen in oncology departments are healthy with few comorbidities. Relatively little is known about the health and functional status of older cancer inpatients, especially outside oncology units. The purpose of this study is to compare the health and ...

AIMS To investigate the epidemiological and clinical aspects of MRSA among inpatients and outpatients presenting to hospital. METHODS Analysis of demographic, epidemiological, and clinical data collected on 385 children first identified as having MRSA between January 1998 and December 2003 in a 250 bed English children's hospital. RESULTS There were 267 inpatients and 118 outpatients. The n...

BACKGROUND Sleep disturbances have negative effects on medical conditions, mental health and cognitive performance. It was shown that about 60% of inpatients suffer from sleep problems. The aim of this study was to assess the correlation between sleep quality and other factors in the inpatients of Rasoul-e-Akram hospital. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, all the hospitalized patients in...

BACKGROUND Aggressive and violent behaviour of inpatients in mental health facilities disrupts the therapeutic alliance and hampers treatment. OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to describe patients' perceptions of the possible environmental and staff factors that might contribute to their aggressive and violent behaviour after admission to a mental health facility; and to propose strategies...

INTRODUCTION Since Canada began fortifying grain products with folic acid in 1998, the rate of folate deficiency in outpatients has decreased substantially. Limited data exist on the prevalence of folate deficiency in Canadian hospital inpatients. METHODS The electronic patient record at a large urban academic institution was reviewed for all red blood cell folate and vitamin B12 level tests ...

INTRODUCTION The Danish National Hospital Register contains four patient types: full-time inpatients, part-time inpatients, outpatients and emergency ward patients. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether results from comparative hospital register studies depend on which patient types we choose to include in the analysis. METHODOLOGY The hospital register was linked to the cen...

As society ages, the composition of the diseases that occur within it changes accordingly. With that in mind, we examined the characteristics and trends in the recent inpatients and compared these recent inpatients with those of a previous report to identify the changes that accompany the aging of society. Subjects were 1,534 cases (men 56.9%, female 43.1%, average age 47.1 years) who were hosp...

OBJECTIVE An exploratory study of the attitudes of hospital patients to the service provided by hospital chaplains. DESIGN Questionnaire study of hospital inpatients in December 1992. SETTING One large teaching hospital in London. PATIENTS 180 hospital inpatients in 14 different general wards, 168 (93%) of whom agreed to take part. MAIN MEASURES Attitudes to chaplains and their role con...

BACKGROUND In Japan, all citizens are covered by the national insurance system in which universal free access to healthcare services is promised to everybody. There are no general physicians or gatekeepers in the Japanese healthcare system. METHODS We studied the pattern of referral of inpatients from secondary care hospitals to a tertiary care university hospital and the reverse referral und...