This guideline aims to ensure that patients admitted to hospital for elective surgery are known to have blood pressures below 160 mmHg systolic and 100 mmHg diastolic in primary care. The objective for primary care is to fulfil this criterion before referral to secondary care for elective surgery. The objective for secondary care is to avoid spurious hypertensive measurements. Secondary care sh...

In many health care systems primary care physicians act as ‘gatekeepers’ to secondary care. We investigates the impact of the UK fundholding scheme under which general practices could elect to hold a budget to meet the costs of elective surgery for their patients. We use a differences in differences methodology on a large four year panel of English general practices before and after the aboliti...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to assess the course of health - related quality of life, cognitive and emotional change during the six months after elective CABG, and to investigate how cognitive impairments, depression and posttraumatic stress symptoms were related to quality of life. METHOD In a prospective study, we followed up for 6 months 138 of the original 147 patients who had ...

Over the past few decades, surgeons have made many attempts to reduce the incidence of surgical site infections (SSI) after elective colorectal surgery. Routine faecal diversion is no longer practiced in elective colonic surgery and mechanical bowel preparation is on the verge of being eliminated altogether. Intravenous antibiotics have become the standard of care as prophylaxis against SSI for...

Without prophylaxis 5-10% of patients having elective hip replacement develop clinically important venous thrombosis and about 5% develop symptomatic embolism, which is fatal in up to 0-5%.' Effective preventive methods exist, but many orthopaedic surgeons do not use them systematically because they tend to be complex, cumbersome, dangerous, or not generally available.' Minidose warfarin (a fix...

background: to evaluate the present status of blood utilization and develop practice guidelines in teaching hospitals in northern iran. methods: we retrospectively analyzed the amount of blood prepared and used preoperatively for 11 elective procedures, from march 2010 to march 2011 in teaching hospitals in northern iran. study variables included the crossmatch transfusion ratio, the transfusio...

REVIEW QUESTION/OBJECTIVE The objective of this review is to synthesize the best available evidence on the effectiveness of non-pharmacological interventions for the prevention and management of psychological and social morbidity in women who have an elective abortion.The specific review question that will be addressed is: In women (aged 13 years or more) with unwanted pregnancies who decide to...

None, this is an elective report