[Feasibility and practical value of statistical matching of a general practice database and a health insurance database applied to diabetes and hypertension].

Objectives: Public Health actors in France are striving to improve the use of national databases for public health and research. The main objective of this project was to develop a research tool in ambulatory care by matching medical data and reimbursement data.

Methods: Data sources were the health insurance database (SNIIRAM) and the General Practice Observatory (OMG) database.

Critical urban areas, deprived areas and neighbourhood effects on health in France.

Since the 1980s, different French governments have formulated public policies aimed at taking into account the specific problems of deprived neighbourhoods. The aim of this paper is to determinate the existence of a neighbourhood effect on health and to discuss the implementation of a geographical index of deprived areas in France. Using the National Health Survey of 2002-2003 and 1999 French census data, we attempt to measure the individual and collective determinants of Self-Reported Health Status (SRH).

PCA analgesia for children with chemotherapy-related mucositis: a double-blind randomized comparison of morphine and pethidine.

Aims: This study aimed to compare pethidine and morphine on efficacy and toxicity in children with severe mucositis following chemotherapies.

Patients And Methods: From March 2000 to November 2003, 35 hospitalized children with chemotherapy-related mucositis were randomly assigned to receive double blindly "patient-controlled analgesia" (PCA) bolus doses of morphine or pethidine. The mucositis pain score was the mean of pain measured four times a day with a Visual Analogue Scale from day 2 to 5 of PCA.

MR quantification of the washout changes in breast tumors under preoperative chemotherapy: feasibility and preliminary results.

Objective: The objective of our study was to describe and determine the feasibility of an MR washout quantification method in patients with breast cancer under preoperative chemotherapy.

Materials And Methods: Nineteen patients with breast T2 or T3 tumors were enrolled in a previous study for tumor response evaluation during chemotherapy based on dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI. We retrospectively used the dynamic acquisition data to produce parametric images representing the washout pattern.