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The specialized psychiatric units for geriatric patients are believed to be effective, yet no studies could be found documenting this. A method of evaluating the effectiveness of a geropsychiatric program is to measure changes in the cognitive and functional status of its patients. This study supports the hypothesis that there would be an improvement in the geropsychiatric patients' cognitive and functional assessment scores by discharge and after hospitalization.
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The Deane peritoneal prosthesis has been used successfully in the treatment of 21 patients with chronic renal failure who were maintained on peritoneal dialysis for periods of up to 20 months. All patients were dialyzed for 24 hours twice weekly. While the prosthesis was still in place, transplantation was carried out in seven patients and laparotomy in three. The prosthesis was also used temporarily whenever a permanent peritoneal catheter (Tenckhoff's) failed because of infection; it was used until the signs of infection disappeared, then the permanent catheter could be replaced safely. From a total of 1136 dialyses 36 positive cultures were reported. Clinical peritonitis was found on only four occasions.