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A short-stay ward attached to the accident and emergency (A&E) department has opened recently. The development of this ward is described together with its operation over a 1-year period. Head injuries were the commonest reason for admission. Only 7% of children stayed longer than anticipated or were considered inappropriate admissions.

HYPOTHESIS We state that our personal method constitued by excision and primary closure in the treatment of pilonidal sinus, is able to obtain a low rate of recurrence and a fast return to work. PATIENTS AND METHODS Our report has been conducted on 315 patients. Excision and primary closure in the treatment of pilonidal sinus by local-regional anesthesia. The patients have been discharged on ...

Statistics are presented on the number and rate of procedures performed for inpatients in non-Federal short-stay hospitals by patient and hospital characteristics. These estimates are based on data abstracted from a national sample of hospital records of discharged patients. This report also presents estimates of average length of stay for single-listed procedures. Allmatarial appearing inthisr...

Purpose. Short hospital stay and equal or reduced complication rates have been demonstrated after fast track open colonic surgery. However, fast track principles of perioperative care can be difficult to implement and often require increased nursing staff because of more concentrated nursing tasks during the shorter hospital stay. Specific data on nursing requirements after laparoscopic surgery...

Sleep deprivation is common in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. The criterion standard for sleep monitoring, polysomnography, is impractical in ICU. Actigraphy (a wrist watch indicating amount of sleep) proved to be a good alternative in non-ICU patients, but not in prolonged mechanically ventilated patients, probably due to ICU-acquired weakness. Short-stay ICU patients do not suffer from I...

A randomised controlled trial has been conducted into the effects of discharging patients from hospital either 48 hours or six to seven days after operations for inguinal hernia and varicose veins. There was no statistically significant difference in major postoperative complications between the two lengths of stay for either of the two conditions. Similarly there was no difference between the ...

BACKGROUND It can be assumed that resettlers (ethnic German immigrants from the Former Soviet Union) show similar smoking patterns as persons in their countries of origin at the time of migration. We analysed how the smoking prevalence among resettlers differs from that among the general population of Germany and whether the prevalence differs between groups with increasing duration of stay. ...

BACKGROUND Many published reports on cost of counseling give a fixed cost per hour of service. These estimates may be flawed. AIMS OF THE STUDY The purpose of this study is to show, by way of an example, how cost of an hour of counseling depends on the nature of the patient, in general, and length of the patient s stay, in particular. Even though the health care professional provides the same...

In each of two years 1 2% of all patients referred as emergencies had had a seizure. One fifth of the patients who had just experienced their first fit were treated with an anticonvulsant drug. Current practice recommends starting treatment only after two or more seizures have been witnessed by someone else.4 Almost one fifth of the patients with first seizures were discharged immediately, some...