A retrospective study of seven-day consultant working: reductions in mortality and length of stay.

Unlabelled: Weekend admission is associated with higher in-hospital mortality than weekday admission. Whether providing enhanced weekend staffing for acute medical inpatient services reduces mortality or length of stay is unknown.

Methods: This paper describes a retrospective analysis of in-hospital mortality and length of stay before and after introduction of an enhanced, consultant-led weekend service in acute medicine in November 2012.

Prediction of life expectancy in individuals in the United Kingdom using current cohort tables.

This paper provides updated cohort tables of life expectancy for individuals in the United Kingdom. Using 2008-based projections from the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) cohort and period expectation of life tables (the Ogden tables); predicted future life expectancies were calculated for quintiles of age from 0-90 years in men and women with mortality ratios between 100% and 1000%. Period tables have been included to illustrate the differences between period and cohort life expectancy in men and women at various ages.

Falling mortality rates in Type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Wirral Peninsula: a longitudinal and retrospective cohort population-based study.

Objectives: To determine the life expectancy and mortality rates in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus when compared with the UK general population; to measure the years of life lost.

Design: Longitudinal and retrospective cohort study.

Setting: The Wirral Peninsula in the northwest of England.

Low investigation rate for adrenal incidentalomas.

The prevalence of adrenal incidentaloma has increased with the increasing use of imaging techniques. While majority are benign adenoma, a small but significant minority may be primary adrenal carcinoma or have endocrine hyper secretion. Existing guidance suggests that excess catecholamine and cortisol secretion should be ruled out in all cases and excess aldosterone secretion should be ruled out in hypertensive patients.