A prospective, randomized study comparing minilaparotomy and laparoscopic cholecystectomy as a day-surgery procedure: 5-year outcome.

Background: The long-term outcome between laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) and minilaparotomy (MC) has not been compared in randomised trials as day-surgery procedures. We therefore investigated the outcome after day-case LC and MC in 48 patients.

Methods: Initially 60 patients with noncomplicated symptomatic gallstone disease were randomly allocated to a day-case MC (n = 29) or LC (n = 31) over a period of 2 years (2006-2008), and 48 of them (80 %) were reached for a follow-up interview 5.

Post-fracture prescribed calcium and vitamin D supplements alone or, in females, with concomitant anti-osteoporotic drugs is associated with lower mortality in elderly hip fracture patients: a prospective analysis.

Background: Several studies have shown excess mortality among hip fracture patients compared with the normal population of the same age. Finnish guidelines for medical treatment of hip fracture patients recommend anti-osteoporosis medication and the daily concomitant use of prescribed calcium and vitamin D supplements. However, whether post-fracture use of calcium and vitamin D supplements is associated with survival in such patients has not been evaluated.