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This website is intended for healthcare professionals
One way to reflect on errors is to look at closed legal claims and examine the causes of litigation. This is a valuable exercise, as it enables a wealth of important detail to be obtained. Solicitors...
When suspicion of myeloma is raised, a number of investigations are required to confirm the diagnosis. These include bone marrow aspirate and biopsy. The presence of plasma cells greater than 10%...
Current national guidelines state that thyroid cancer has a long natural history where late recurrences occur, but can be treated successfully with a view to cure or long-term survival (BTA, 2014)....
OAB is a clinical diagnosis based on the symptoms of urinary urgency, urge incontinence, frequency and nocturia. Bladder diaries are helpful for quantifying these symptoms and can be used to set...
This research focused on a reliability study of the MK5. To establish inter- and intra-rater reliability as sensitively as possible authentic video material was collected, enabling assessments of...
The authors undertook a single-centre study with patients known to the authors' pouch nursing service. It involved a retrospective analysis of patients who had reported GI symptoms in the preceding 4...
People with diabetes constantly walk a tightrope between strict glycaemic control to delay and/or slow the progression of micro- and macrovascular complications.
It is important to differentiate between restrictive practices and restrictive interventions; however, the former may result in the latter. Restrictive practices involve restriction of a person's...
“I had a horrible experience with everyone trying to access a vein. It took 6 nurses approximately 20 tries to locate a vein! It was awful! My arm was sooo very bruised and sore. I went from one...
After the 2016 hospital policies were introduced, the use of CG in venous access was implemented significantly in the hospital (2000 vials/year for an estimated 7000 central venous catheters inserted...