[A universal control unit for people with disabilities].

Home automation in the area of disability is a rapidly developing field. A hospital rehabilitation unit and a university institute of technology have formed an experimental partnership with the aim of improving patient care management. This collaboration resulted in the development of a control interface in a hospital room equipped with certain home automation systems, opening up perspectives for the return home of patients with a disability.

[A pain assessment logbook].

Fighting pain is one of nurses' duties. At Dreux general hospital, the medical and nursing staff of the physical medicine and rehabilitation department has gradually put in place since 2004 an information and treatment logbook. It constitutes a way of recording and assessing each patient's pain and consequently facilitates its treatment.