Patient satisfaction of specialist nurse-led renal cancer follow-up.

Background: For many patients with locally advanced renal cancer, management is surgery followed by surveillance imaging for several years. There is no concrete data regarding specialist nurse follow-up for patients after they have had surgery.

Aims: The authors' aim was to assess patient satisfaction with specialist nurse follow-up for patients with renal cancer who have undergone surgery.

Emergency laparotomy in the older patient: factors predictive of 12-month mortality-Salford-POPS-GS. An observational study.

Introduction: Although high rates of in-hospital mortality have been described in older patients undergoing emergency laparotomy (EL), less is known about longer-term outcomes in this population. We describe factors present at the time of hospital admission that influence 12-month survival in older patients.

Methods: Observational study of patients aged 75 years and over, who underwent EL at our hospital between 8th September 2014 and 30th March 2017.