A 5-day course designed to train psychiatric hospital staff verbal and physical methods of preventing violence and injury when dealing with upset patients was taught to 89 staff from maximum and less secure wards. Compared to no-treatment controls, experimental subjects improved significantly on four tests of crisis-related tests and knowledge. Questionnaire and self-report measures from staff ...

OBJECTIVES To establish factors that influence and contribute to the death of patients with cancer in acute hospitals in Northern Ireland. DESIGN Retrospective clinical note review. SETTING 16 acute hospitals, covering 5 Health and Social Care Trusts across Northern Ireland. PARTICIPANTS 793 adult patients with cancer who died in an acute hospital between July and December 2007 identified...

BACKGROUND In this study, we investigated the measures currently being taken in German hospitals to prevent infection with methicillin-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). To this end, we circulated a questionnaire among hospitals participating in the MRSA-KISS module. "KISS" in the name of this project stands for "hospital infection surveillance system" (in German, Krankenhaus-In...

OBJECTIVE To determine the extent of use in children in hospital of drugs that are not specifically licensed for use in children (unlicensed) and of drugs that are used outside the terms of their product licence that apply to indication, age, dose, or route of administration (off label). DESIGN Prospective study of drugs administered on paediatric medical and surgical wards for 13 weeks. SE...

Unpasteurised expressed human milk is used by neonatologists in clinical care as both a strategy for tissue therapy and as a source of nutrition for preterm infants; however, it is a possible source of nosocomial infection. Approaches preferred by neonatologists are different compared to public health staff. The objective is to start broad scientific discussion about the safety of giving unpast...