Criterion validity of a computer-assisted instrument of self-triage (ca-ISET) compared to the validity of regular triage in an ophthalmic emergency department.

Objectives: The computer-assisted version of a self-triage tool (ca-ISET) for an ophthalmic emergency department (ED) was developed to increase the validity of the triage procedure when trained ED staff is absent.

Methods: We tested whether sensitivity, specificity, Negative Predictive Value (NPV) and Positive Predictive Value (PPV) of the ca-ISET deviated from regular triage. Patients ≥18 years visiting the ED of the Rotterdam Eye Hospital in the Netherlands were invited to participate in this prospective study.

[Pregnant women with psychiatric illness are able to stop smoking].

Smoking during pregnancy is associated with neonatal complications and health problems later in life. However, about 10% of the pregnant women in the Netherlands smoke and those with a psychiatric illness smoke even more frequently. Although giving up smoking may be more difficult for these women, it does not lead to an increase of psychiatric symptoms.

[Intrauterine exposure to SSRIs: no reason for routine hypoglycaemia screening].

Objective: To investigate whether neonates who have been exposed to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in utero have a higher risk of hypoglycaemia than unexposed neonates.

Design: Systematic review of cohort studies.

Methods: We searched in PubMed and Embase for available cohort studies in which neonates exposed to SSRIs in utero were compared to non-exposed neonates, with hypoglycaemia as an outcome parameter.