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C Robins

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PubMed1999

Survey of the use of thromboprophylaxis for medical patients at Christchurch Hospital.

AIM: To determine the level of utilisation of thromboprophylaxis in relation to risk factors for medical patients at Christchurch Hospital. METHODS: All medical wards were surveyed three times over a 12-week period from January 1998. Patients currently under investigation for venous thromboembolism were excluded, as were those currently receiving anticoagulant treatment for unrelated disorders. Primary prophylaxis was defined as the use of low-dose heparins or elastic stockings in asymptomatic patients. Patients with two or more risk factors were defined as being at high risk. RESULTS: Three hundred and eighty-seven patients were interviewed, of whom 80% were considered to be potentially eligible for primary prophylaxis. One hundred and one patients (33%) were at high risk, of whom 20 (20%) were given primary prophylaxis. Cancer, confinement to bed, recent surgery and heart failure were the most common risk factors. Elastic stockings and low-dose heparin were employed in the same proportion of high risk cases but no patient received both. Patients with cancer were less likely to receive thromboprophylaxis than those with the other risk factors. Overall, only about 7% of high-risk patients received thromboprophylaxis for more than 75% of the duration of their stay in hospital. CONCLUSION: Thromboprophylaxis is underutilised at Christchurch Hospital. Guidelines are required and audits of compliance are indicated.

Anticoagulants↗
PubMed1990

Dysfunctional attitudes in depressed patients before and after clinical treatment and in normal control subjects.

To evaluate the role of maladaptive thinking patterns in depression, the authors administered the Dysfunctional Attitude Scale to 112 depressed patients before and after 3-6 weeks of treatment with antidepressants or placebo. Twenty-two normal subjects were also assessed twice. Depressed patients had a significantly higher initial mean score than control subjects, but during treatment their score significantly decreased, and the posttreatment score of those with complete recoveries was nearly as low as the control subjects' final score. The higher the initial dysfunctional attitude score the poorer the response to treatment. Patients with endogenous depression had significantly lower scores than nonendogenously depressed patients.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1974

Memory for words.

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Auditory Perception↗