Cause-specific mortality in diabetes: retrospective hospital based data from south India.

Background: India lacks comprehensive mortality data in individuals with diabetes. The present retrospective case-control study compared the causes of death in diabetic and non-diabetic inpatients in a tertiary care hospital in 2007.

Methods: Deaths in diabetic patients (n = 315) were compared with 307 randomly selected controls.

Resuscitation of the written word: meeting the standard for cardiac arrest documentation.

The aim of this study was to audit cardiac arrest documentation within a UK teaching hospital, survey the regional use of proformas for data collection, and consider the need for a standardised national template. A prospective audit comparing cardiac arrest documentation to General Medical Council (GMC) professional standards and the 'Utstein' fields was carried out, along with a survey of regional resuscitation officers for the use of standardised templates. The main outcome measures were the design of 'best practice' template using GMC guidelines and the 'Utstein' fields.