This study aimed to quantify and compare the prevalence of simple prescribing errors made
by clinicians in the first 24 hours of a general medical patient's hospital admission. Four …

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• Increasing numbers of patients are presenting for unscheduled medical admission to hospitals
worldwide, prompting clinical redesign of “front-door” emergency medical services. • In …

The global burden of stroke, the undisputed success of intravenous thrombolysis in the
management of myocardial infarction and subsequent evidence from animal models of cerebral …

… Paul F Jenkins, Campbell H Thompson and Lorna L Barton … Paul F Jenkins, MB BChir,
FRCPE, FRACP, Winthrop Professor of Acute Medicine1 … 8 Morgan RJM, Williams F …

Pulmonary embolism (PE) continues to be associated with significant mortality despite
advances in the diagnostic techniques available for its detection. Anticoagulation remains …

CONFERENCE REPORT also increase the allocation of patients to appropriate subspecialties,
increase staff and patient satisfaction, and facilitate the direct discharge of patients from …

… Paul F Jenkins, Winthrop professor of acute medicine (retired) A …

We report a rare case of bacterial pericarditis secondary to rupture of liver abscess into the
pericardium. The patient presented with cardiac-sounding chest pain and with normal ECG, …

… Paul Grant … Lorna Barton, Judith Futtermenger, Yash Gaddi, Angela Kang, Jon Rivers,
David Spriggs, Paul F Jenkins, Campbell H Thompson and Josephine S Thomas 124 Living …