Problem To reduce hospital inpatient mortality and thus increase public confidence in the
quality of patient care in an urban acute hospital trust after adverse media coverage. Design …

A clinical and statistical analysis has been undertaken in a consecutive series of 227 patients
with Crohn's disease involving the distal ileum under long-term review between 1944 and …

What will be the future of internal medicine in Europe? Because of rapidly growing concerns
regarding the position of internal medicine in many European countries, the European …

Classic pituitary apoplexy is rare. It occurs in approximately 5% of patients with a pituitary
tumour, and for 80% of apoplexy patients is the first presentation of the tumour, although subtle …

Health reform discussions revolve around how best to achieve the goals of improving quality,
increasing the access to care, and costs containment. However, in the current health …

: The incidence and pathogenesis of sepsis following 107 elective operations in 87 patients
with inflammatory bowel disease has been studied. Eighteen per cent developed wound …

In this case report, 30 sera from a 25-year-old heroin abuser with intervertebral candidosis
were tested for the presence of anti-Candida albicans antibodies by agglutination, counter-…

This report describes the case of a young man who developed Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) after
corticosteroid treatment for severe tracheal involvement of relapsing polychondritis (RP). The …

In this report, we describe the use of positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT)
as an early investigation in a patient with high inflammatory markers and no …

The painful shoulder is a very common condition encountered in the rheumatology clinic with
rotator cuff disorders, glenohumeral disorders, acromioclavicular joint disease and referred …