La Revue de médecine interne
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Multicenter Study Observational Study
[Association between psychiatric comorbidities and hospital length of stay in post-emergency internal medicine patients].
Patients with psychiatric disorders suffer from a higher rate of somatic disorders than those without psychiatric disorder, often inappropriately managed. Our study aimed to describe patients with psychiatric comorbidity in post-emergency internal medicine units and to compare their length of hospital stay to patients without psychiatric disease. ⋯ Patients with psychiatric comorbidity are frequent in post-emergency internal medicine wards. They experience longer hospital stays, only partly related with a higher burden of somatic disorders. Special attention should be paid to this vulnerable population.
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Case Reports
[Use of targeting therapy in Erdheim-Chester disease: A case report with neurologic involvement].
Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD) is a rare multisystemic disease characterised by an infiltration of various organs by CD68+ CD1a- histiocytes. The clinical and radiological presentation is very variable. ⋯ Our case report shows the persistent diagnostic difficulty of the ECD and the particular gravity of neurologic involvement.
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Blended-learning methods could be a response to student nonattendance. Non-compulsory teaching combining e-learning/interactive face-to-face sessions has been implemented at Paris-Diderot Medical School for the teaching of intensive care and emergency medicine during the 2018/2019 university period. The aim of the study was to assess this newly-implemented blended teaching. ⋯ The use of combined learning methods reached more students than traditional teachings and allowed the University to focus on its role of knowledge transfer.