Inpatient treatment for anorexia nervosa: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.

Background: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a serious psychiatric disease. Choice of acute inpatient care for AN is driven by the severity of symptoms and the level of risk to the patient. Inpatient hospitalization of patients with AN typically includes a behavioral weight gain protocol that is designed to address the core features of the disorder: weight, appetite, and distorted thoughts and behavior.

[UNIHCOS Project: dynamic cohort of Spanish college students to the study of drug and other addictions].

The University stage gives rise to social and personal changes as the independence of the nuclear family and the increased responsibilities that are related to the acquisition and/or consolidation of life styles and habits that may determine the future health status. Inadequate nutrition, a high level of inactivity, risky sexual behavior, abuse of new technologies or starting consumption of legal and illegal drugs, are among the most significant risk behaviors in this phase. In order to know how to set and / or consolidate the habits and lifestyles in the university stage and health effects in the future, to born the uniHcos project.

[Complicated acute apendicitis. Open versus laparoscopic surgery].

Introduction: Although laparoscopy has become the standard approach in other procedures, this technique is not generally accepted for acute appendicitis, especially if it is complicated due reports on the increase in intra-abdominal abscesses.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the morbidity in a group of patients diagnosed with complicated apendicitis (gangrenous or perforated) who had undergone open or laparoscopic appendectomy.

Material And Method: We prospectively studied 107 patients who had undergone appendectomy for complicated appendicitis over a two year period.

[Variables related to job satisfaction. Cross-sectional study using the European Foundation for Quality Management [EFQM] model].

Objectives: To identify the influence of the dimensions of people items and sociodemographic characteristics included in the EFQM model on high satisfaction of healthcare workers in a district hospital.

Methods: We performed a cross-sectional study in November 2003. The questionnaire used was the personal satisfaction survey of the Basque Country (Spain).

[Longitudinal studies: concepts and particularities].

In this review the definition of "longitudinal study" is analysed. Most current textbooks on epidemiology do not define a longitudinal study, whereas statistical textbooks do. It is more common to talk about longitudinal data than about longitudinal studies.

[Electrocardiographic prediction of the site of lesion in the anterior descending artery in acute myocardial infarction].

Introduction And Objectives: The goal of this study was to analyze the value of electrocardiography in predicting the site of the lesion in the left anterior descending coronary artery, in relation to the first septal and the first diagonal branches, in patients with acute anterior myocardial infarction.

Method: Ninety consecutive patients who were admitted to the coronary unit with acute anterior myocardial infarction from July 1998 to May 2000 were studied retrospectively. The electrocardiographic changes were analyzed and correlated with the site of the lesion in the anterior descending artery, as determined by coronary angiography.