Disparities in quality of care have always been a major challenge in health care. Providing information to patients may help to narrow such disparities. However, the relationship between level of patient information and outcomes remains to be explored. More importantly, would better-informed patients have better outcomes through their choice of higher quality providers? We hypothesize that medi...

Penile foreign body injection is an uncommon entity produced by penile paraffin, mineral oil, and vaseline injections for the purpose of penile enlargement. Generally, penile subcutaneous and glandular injections for penile augmentation are performed by a nonmedical person, under unacceptable conditions. It will be an aim to share our experiences about penile vaseline injection.

Statistics from the 1978 survey of the National Inventory of Family Planning Services are presented on demographic and institutional characteristics of service sites that provide medical and nonmedical family plannlng services. Data are given on the physical location of the service sites, their operating responsibility, the number of patients served, medical and ancillary services provided, and...

Penile paraffinoma is an uncommon entity produced by penile paraffin injections for the purpose of penile enlargement by a nonmedical person. Although it is not a current method of penile enlargement procedures, in our opinion dermatologists and urology specialist should be have knowledge of this entity about diagnosis and management. It will be an aim to share our experiences and views in this...

OBJECTIVE To characterize medical and nonmedical reasons for delayed discharge on a general thoracic surgery unit. DESIGN A prospective observational cohort study. SETTING A university-affiliated tertiary care institution. PATIENTS Between February 1999 and July 2000, the in-hospital progress of 130 patients who had undergone an elective thoracic surgical procedure was evaluated prospecti...

BACKGROUND Overdose deaths involving opioid pain relievers (OPR), also known as opioid analgesics, have increased and now exceed deaths involving heroin and cocaine combined. This report describes the use and abuse of OPR by state. METHODS CDC analyzed rates of fatal OPR overdoses, nonmedical use, sales, and treatment admissions. RESULTS In 2008, drug overdoses in the United States caused 3...