By Kat Keogh NURSES WILL be tackling the ‘hidden problem’ of malnutrition in older people as part of a government-funded pilot programme launched in England last month. The Malnutrition Prevention Project will target the over-65s with a body mass index below the healthy range of 18.5-25, and those who are losing weight without trying. Hospital, community and practice nurses in Salford and the L...

The aim of this study was to investigate the scientific productivity of the Mostar University Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Mostar. All articles that were indexed by PubMed with the keyword Mostar were included in the analysis. During 1999-2008, a total of 76 articles were published, with a total of 366 authorships contributed by a total of 228 unique authors, whereas a total of 1...

BACKGROUND The rising incidence of methicillin resistant Staph. aureus (MRSA) infections is a concern for emergency practitioners. While studies have examined MRSA in inpatients, few have focused on emergency department populations. We sought to describe predictors of MRSA skin infections in an emergency department population. METHODS This was a prospective observational cohort study conducte...