Improving the quality of the fracture liaison service through the implementation of a structured health record.

Objective: According to the best practice framework for secondary fracture prevention, all patients aged ≥50 years with a fracture should be assessed for osteoporosis within the fracture liaison service (FLS). The framework includes an FLS quality registry database to ensure quality. The input of data into our FLS registry was time-consuming and required entering data twice: into both the journal record and the registry.

[Outbreak of food-borne gastroenteritis caused by a Norwalk-like virus. Evaluation of methods for confirmation of the etiology in suspected viral gastroenteritis].

Acute gastroenteritis is a common disease and can be food-borne. We describe an outbreak of acute gastroenteritis, probably caused by Norwalk-like virus, which struck 250 people in the course of one week in a small Norwegian community. The source of the infection was probably an infected food handler in a bakery who contaminated cream cakes with the virus.