Implementation of major trauma app: usability and data completeness.

Background: The current UK standard for major trauma patients is to record notes in a paper trauma booklet. Through an innovative collaboration between a major trauma centre and a digital transformation industry partner, a TraumaApp was developed. Electronic notes have been shown to have fewer errors, granular data collection and enable time stamped contemporaneous record keeping.

Utilization of hospital services by obese patients before and after bariatric surgery.

Purpose: To compare the utility of various hospital services used by morbidly obese patients before and after bariatric surgery.

Methods: The subjects of this retrospective study were 73 consecutive patients, who underwent elective laparoscopic bariatric surgery between May 2008 and December 2010. There were 58 women and 15 men, with a median age of 45 years (IQR 26-65 years).