OBJECTIVES Patients in teaching hospitals often encounter difficulty in correctly identifying their physicians. We hypothesized that a photo album of physicians might increase the ability of patients to correctly identify their physicians and hence conducted this study to test the hypothesis. DESIGN A prospective study was conducted. SETTING Department of Surgery, The Third XiangYa Hospital...

Accidents cause 10,000 children to attend Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital Casualty Department each year. Most of these children sustain trivial injuries, which apart from some initial pain, cause no long term effects. About 1,000 of these children are admitted to hospital, many being discharged within a day or so with minimal upset to their way of life. However, some of these children suf...

Unscheduled return visits were looked at to determine the quality of care and safety of patients in a paediatric assessment unit. The reasons for unscheduled return visits were also investigated. Two per cent of patients discharged from the unit returned, the main reason being parental perception of illness. There were only two patients re-referred by their family doctor. These findings have im...

community shape themselves out in response to the "-increasingly complex conditions of its life; but it is only after many trials and many failures that the various functions necessary to be performed are properly distributed and discharged. The care of the public health in a city is one of the most important of these functions. It concerns every class, in all circumstances. Yet it will be foun...

INJECTION OF QUININE IN TIIE 1IOSUUNGABAD POLICE HOSPITAL DUPING 1869. By P. Cullen, M.D., Civil Surgeon, Hoshungabad. (Continued from page 88.J XYI.?Naveeyar Khan, a Mahomedan, aged 18, admitted 21st September 1869, with fever. On the 22nd half a drachm of tho solution was injected, but fever recurred on the 23rd and 24th, after which no relapse occurred, and he was discharged on the 28th Sept...

Factors associated with early asthma readmission have not been fully studied. To identify predictors of early readmission, we performed a matched case-control study of children discharged with primary diagnosis of asthma. Cases were readmitted with asthma within 30 days of discharge. Controls were not readmitted. Conditional logistic regression analysis was used. History of asthma hospitalizati...

INTRODUCTION Neural damages are among the main factors that contribute to physical disability in leprosy. Systematic monitoring using a broad physical, psychological and social approach is necessary. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to characterize the limitation of activity and social participation and its correlation with disabilities and/or impairment in individuals after being di...

A consistent pattern has emerged from research in Northern Hemisphere populations indicating differences in the seasonality of birth between patients with epilepsy and the general population. This is the first study using similar methodology to look at Southern Hemisphere data. The population studied is composed of patients discharged from Australian hospitals with a diagnosis of epilepsy, in t...