Predictors of 30 day hospital readmission in patients with type 2 diabetes: a retrospective, case-control, database study.

Objective: To assess factors predictive of all-cause, 30 day hospital readmission among patients with type 2 diabetes in the United States.

Methods: A retrospective, case-control study using deidentified Humedica electronic health record data was conducted to identify patients ≥18 years old with ≥6 months of data prior to index hospitalization (pre-period) and ≥30 days of data after discharge (post-period). Combined methods of bootstrap resampling and stepwise logistic regression were used to identify factors associated with readmission.

An audit of the results of the Roche Amplicor gonorrhoea test on female genital samples--a cheaper and more sensitive method than culture in an urban English population.

We report an audit of the use of the Roche Amplicor gonorrhoea test in an urban English genitourinary (GU) medicine clinic. A number of studies have shown polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to be more sensitive than culture in detecting Neisseria gonorrhoea (NG) in genital samples. PCR also offers benefits over culture in terms of samples transport and storage requirements but cannot produce antibiotic sensitivities.