Clinical and economic burden of surgical complications during hospitalization for digestive cancer surgery in France.

Background: Surgical complications and particularly infections after digestive cancer surgery remain a major health and economic problem and its burden in France is not well documented.

Aims: The aim of this study was to analyse recent data regarding surgical complications in patients undergoing major digestive cancer surgery, and to estimate its burden for the French society.

Methods And Results: Using the 2018 French hospital discharge database and 2017 National CostStudy we studied hospital stays for surgical resection in patients withdigestive cancer.

Association of symptoms following mild traumatic brain injury with posttraumatic stress disorder vs. postconcussion syndrome.

Importance: A proportion of patients experience long-lasting symptoms following mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI). The postconcussion syndrome (PCS), included in the DSM-IV, has been proposed to describe this condition. Because these symptoms are subjective and common to other conditions, there is controversy whether PCS deserves to be identified as a diagnostic syndrome.

Distraction and driving: results from a case-control responsibility study of traffic crash injured drivers interviewed at the emergency room.

Background: Use of cellular phones has been shown to be associated with crashes but many external distractions remain to be studied.

Objective: To assess the risk associated with diversion of attention due to unexpected events or secondary tasks at the wheel.

Design: Responsibility case-control study.

Specificity of postconcussion symptoms at 3 months after mild traumatic brain injury: results from a comparative cohort study.

Objective: To assess the specificity of symptoms included in various symptom lists used to identify postconcussion syndrome (PCS), by using follow-up data comparing patients with mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) and control patients during the month prior to injury and 3 months later.

Setting: The adult emergency department of a teaching hospital in Bordeaux, France.

Participants: A cohort of patients with MTBI (n = 536) and a comparison group with nonhead injuries (n = 946).

Mind wandering and driving: responsibility case-control study.

Objective: To assess the association between mind wandering (thinking unrelated to the task at hand) and the risk of being responsible for a motor vehicle crash.

Design: Responsibility case-control study.

Setting: Adult emergency department of a university hospital in France, April 2010 to August 2011.

S100-B protein as a screening tool for the early assessment of minor head injury.

Study Objective: A computed tomography (CT) scan has high sensitivity in detecting intracranial injury in patients with minor head injury but is costly, exposes patients to high radiation doses, and reveals clinically relevant lesions in less than 10% of cases. We evaluate S100-B protein measurement as a screening tool in a large population of patients with minor head injury.

Methods: We conducted a prospective observational study in the emergency department of a teaching hospital (Bordeaux, France).