Factors Associated With Injury Among Employees at a U.S. Army Hospital.

The purpose of this study was to investigate injury incidence and factors associated with injury among employees at a large U.S. Army hospital to inform injury prevention planning and health promotion education efforts.

Evaluation of healthcare-associated infection surveillance in Pennsylvania hospitals.

Objective: In Pennsylvania, reporting of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) was mandated in 2007, and hospitals were encouraged to implement qualified electronic surveillance (QES) systems to assist HAI detection. This study evaluated the usefulness of these systems in reducing HAIs.

Design: Online survey and retrospective cohort study.

Unrecognized physical illness prompting psychiatric admission.

Background: We assessed factors that might contribute to clinicians erroneously attributing medically based changes in a patient's mental status to psychiatric illness.

Methods: Records of 1340 patients admitted to a VA hospital psychiatric unit and 613 to a public hospital psychiatric unit from 2001 to 2007 were reviewed. Cases admitted because of an unrecognized medical disorder underwent further analysis of the preadmission assessment and documented history of mental illness.

Antisocial personality disorder in incarcerated offenders: Psychiatric comorbidity and quality of life.

Background: We determined the frequency of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) in offenders. We examined demographic characteristics, psychiatric comorbidity, and quality of life in those with and without ASPD. We also looked at the subset with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).