[Information provision for the biomedical sciences in the Netherlands faces an uncertain future].

The availability of biomedical information in the Netherlands is largely guaranteed by the libraries of the eight medical faculties and related university hospitals together with the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services (Dutch acronym: NIWI). The acquisition of biomedical journals has always been coordinated at a national level. Up until now the NIWI has played a central role in filling in the gaps left by the other collections.

[Drug utilization in 3 nursing homes for somatic patients].

An investigation was carried out of the drug-use of 198 patients in three nursing homes. Almost 80% of the patients used 2 to 7 drugs. The average number of drugs per patient relating to regular medications for internal use was 4,36.