Satisfaction with and adherence to warfarin treatment: A cross-sectional study among Sudanese patients.

Background: Satisfaction with and adherence to oral anticoagulant treatment are important measures that decrease morbidity and mortality. Higher satisfaction and adherence to warfarin therapy was found to be associated among other factors with good International Normalized Ratio (INR) control.

Objectives: To assess patient satisfaction with and adherence to oral anticoagulant therapy and to identify predictors of the two studied domains.

An audit of prophylactic surgical antibiotic use in a Sudanese Teaching Hospital.

Background: Antibiotic prophylaxis is effective at reducing the risk of postoperative infection for nearly all types of surgery. Objective To audit the use of prophylactic antibiotics for elective surgery.

Setting: Khartoum Teaching Hospital, Sudan, a 1,000 bed tertiary level hospital.