Non-EEA doctors in EEA countries: doctors or cleaners?

Background: Migration of non-EEA doctors to EEA-countries has become a common phenomenon. As coordination within the EEA has not yet been established, every EEA-country is re-inventing the wheel of assessment of foreign medical degrees and developing additional programmes for non-EEA doctors. There is hardly any knowledge about assessment procedures in other EEA-countries.

Is the distinction between superficial pressure ulcers and moisture lesions justifiable? A clinical-pathologic study.

Objective: Pressure ulcers are classified into 4 distinct stages, which allows comparisons between institutions and even countries. Recently, attempts have been made to single out so-called moisture lesions from the early stages of pressure ulcer lesions as a distinct entity.

Methods: To investigate the justification for this development, 14 histopathologic samples from patients with both incontinence and pressure ulcer lesions were studied in an attempt to delineate differences in the pathophysiology and histopathology.

Prospective cohort study of routine use of risk assessment scales for prediction of pressure ulcers.

Objective: To evaluate whether risk assessment scales can be used to identify patients who are likely to get pressure ulcers.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Setting: Two large hospitals in the Netherlands.