Disease-related difficulties and satisfaction with level of knowledge in adults with mild or complex congenital heart disease

Objectives: To evaluate difficulties in daily life, and satisfaction with level of knowledge about their disease, in patients with congenital cardiac disease in order to improve counselling. Methods: A self-administered questionnaire was completed by 80 patients with mild, and 76 with complex, congenital cardiac disease. They were aged from 17...

Psychological responses to the needle-free Medi-Jectorρ or the multidose Disetronicρ injection pen in human growth hormone therapy

The aim of the study was to test the hypothesis that daily administration of growth hormone using the Medi-Jector® results in fewer adverse psychological responses than needle injection with a multidose injection pen. The Medi-Jector is a needle-free injection device that can deliver growth hormone subcutaneously through jet injection. The group...

Gunstige ervaringen met intraveneuze antimicrobiele therapie buiten het ziekenhuis [Good results of intravenous antimicrobial treatment outside the hospital]

Objective. To determine whether intravenous home treatment with antimicrobial drugs of patients with an infection is feasible. Design. Descriptive. Setting. Academic Hospital, Leiden, the Netherlands. Method. In October 1992 a programme for intravenous home treatment of patients with infectious diseases was started. The programme was based on...

Implications for hospitals, health workers, and patients

Minimally invasive surgery is one of the great innovations of health care in the 20th century. It promises to revolutionise surgery by allowing many more operations to be performed with minimal hospitalisation. Pressure from patients has caused many techniques to spread rapidly before they have been adequately assessed. This must be resisted,...