Coordinated care versus standard care in hospital admissions of people with chronic illness: a randomised controlled trial.

Objective: To determine whether Care Navigation (CN), a nurse-led hospital-based coordinated care intervention, reduced the use of hospital services and improved quality of life for patients with chronic illness.

Design: Randomised controlled trial; participants were allocated to CN or standard care.

Participants And Setting: Patients with chronic illness presenting to the emergency department of Nepean Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales.

Digital photography as source documentation of skin toxicity: an analysis from the Trans Tasman Radiation Oncology Group (TROG) 04.01 post-mastectomy radiation skin care trial.

Introduction: This study evaluated digital photographs as a method of providing auditable source documentation for radiotherapy-induced skin toxicity and the possibility therefore of centralised, blinded scoring for a multicentre randomised controlled trial.

Methods: Digital photograph sets from the first five patients from each of 12 participating centres were audited. Minimum camera specifications and photograph requirements were protocol specified.