The future of hospital at home: a qualitative interview study of healthcare staff.

Purpose: Hospital at Home (HaH) services are expanding to provide acute multidisciplinary care in an individual's home. In this pilot study, we interviewed HaH staff to understand challenges and opportunities for service development.

Methods: We conducted 23 semi-structured interviews with multidisciplinary staff working across three HaH services in Scotland.

Lack of agreement on colour description between clinicians examining childhood bruising.

Introduction: In child protection cases clinicians are often asked to describe and age bruises. This paper looks at both intra- and inter-observer variability in the description of childhood bruising.

Methods: Fifty-eight bruises on 44 children were described by three observers, the bruises were then photographed and the same observers described the bruises at a later date.