The New Zealand medical journal
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To explore general practitioner attitudes toward mandatory reporting of doctor-patient sexual abuse. ⋯ There was a lack of strong consensus on mandatory reporting of doctor-patient sexual abuse.
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Comparative Study
Follow up of elderly patients after cardiac surgery and intensive care unit admission, 1991 to 1995.
To examine the outcome of cardiac surgery and resulting intensive care admission in elderly (> or = 75 years) cardiac surgery patients at Waikato Hospital, 1991 to 1995. ⋯ Following cardiac surgery and intensive care admission at Waikato Hospital, surviving elderly patients have experienced a favourable outcome in terms of symptom control and quality of life. Mortality rates are acceptably low.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
The efficacy of inhaled corticosteroids in the management of non asthmatic chronic airflow obstruction.
The aims of this investigation were to evaluate the efficacy of regular inhaled beclomethasone in the control of symptoms and lung function with non-asthmatic smoking related obstructive pulmonary disease and to evaluate the relationship between clinical responses to a short course of oral prednisone and longer term outcomes using inhaled steroid. ⋯ Our results indicate that in non-asthmatic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease inhaled corticosteroid fails to achieve significant improvements in either lung function or symptoms. The response to a "trial of steroid" using oral prednisone is not clinically helpful in selecting the small number of patients who may subsequently benefit from this form of therapy.