Does my patient really need this at admission? Seven opportunities for improving value in patient care during their hospitalization.

Introduction: Besides the main treatment for their disease, hospital patients receive multiple care measures which include venous lines (VL), urinary catheters (UC), dietary restrictions (DR), mandatory bed rest (BR), deep venous thrombosis prophylaxis (VTP), stress ulcer prophylaxis (SUP) and anticoagulation bridge therapy for atrial fibrillation (BAF). In many cases these practices are of low value.

Methods: We analysed patients admitted to Internal Medicine wards throughout 2018 (2714 inpatients).

[Factors predicting lack of adherence to highly active antiretroviral treatment].

Introduction: Knowledge of adherence to highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) and the variables associated with poor compliance is useful for the follow-up of HIV infected patients.

Patients, Material And Methods: Patients were consecutively recruited from the HIV outpatient clinics of the Hospitals of Leon and El Bierzo from January to June 2000. Patients were considered non-adherent to treatment if they failed to take 10% or more of their prescribed total dose of at least one drug during the 4 days before the interview, or if they had accumulated a delay of more than 9 days over the previous 3 months in picking up their prescribed drugs from the hospital pharmacy.