Abstract Background Surgical training is a competitive process attracting highly motivated clinicians. The National Health Service currently facing long waiting lists and workforce crisis yet there paucity of data regarding attrition surgical trainees in England. This study aims to describe the from 2016-2021 explore relationship between specialty competition ratios rates. Method Data was obtai...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE--Incidence, case-fatality rate at 28 days, and severity of acute stroke were recorded for 7 years in a large population-based stroke register to understand the reasons for the decline in stroke mortality in northern Sweden. METHODS Within the framework of the World Health Organization MONICA Project, acute stroke was monitored in people aged 35 to 74 years in...