OBJECTIVE A new oral appliance to treat obstructive sleep apnea in infants with Pierre Robin sequence has recently been shown to be superior to a sham procedure. We now investigate safety and long-term effects of this appliance on obstructive sleep apnea in infants with Pierre Robin sequence. DESIGN Case series with repetitive follow-up examinations. SETTING Tertiary neonatal intensive care...

OBJECTIVE to evaluate a nurse-led management plan and care pathway for older people discharged from an Accident and Emergency Department after a fall. DESIGN randomized controlled trial. SETTING a large teaching hospital. SUBJECTS 348 consecutive patients aged 65 or over attending the Accident and Emergency Department with a fall. INTERVENTIONS we randomized patients to falls nurse inte...

The paper discusses the enhancement of inherent safety by index methods. The aim is to study, how well the safety index methods can evaluate inherent safety compared to expert evaluations and Dow Fire and Explosion index values. Studies on four levels of scope from process concept selection to equipment design were done and correlations between indices and expert values calculated. It was found...

BACKGROUND Aim of study was to document 1) that patient safety culture scores vary considerably by hospital department and ward, and 2) that much of the variation is across the lowest level organizational units: the wards. Setting of study: 500-bed Norwegian university hospital, September-December 2006. METHODS Data collected from 1400 staff by (the Norwegian version of) the generic version o...

STUDY DESIGN A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of Bryan cervical disc arthroplasty (BCDA) as compared with anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) for treatment of cervical disc diseases (CDDs). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Previous meta-analyses focused on the comparison of effectiven...

Assessment of road safety performance of countries and their comparison is essential in guiding future decisions. The objective of this study is to search for effective safety pillars in road safety capacity strengthening based on the experiences of the leading countries. In this study, we first try to use the results of a structural equations model with partial least squares approach to select...