Analysis of Factors and Medical Errors Involved in Patient Complaints in a European Emergency Department.

Introduction: Patients' complaints from Emergency Departments (ED) are frequent and can be used as a quality assurance indicator.

Objective: Factors contributing to patients' complaints (PCs) in the emergency department were analyzed.

Methods: It was a retrospective cohort study, the qualitative variables of patients' complaints visiting ED of a university hospital were compared with Chi-Square and t test tests.

The Risk of Venous Thromboembolism with Different Generation of Oral Contraceptives; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Introduction: Oral contraceptives (OCs) are considered as one of the most common risk factor of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in childbearing age. Some of the recent researches indicate that the odds of VTE may be even higher with newer generations of OCs. The present meta-analysis was designed to evaluate the effect of different generation of OCs on the occurrence of VTE.

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome as the first presentation of chronic kidney disease.

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome is a clinicoradiologic syndrome characterized by seizure, headache, nausea, vomiting, altered mental status, visual disturbance, or visual loss, together with radiologic findings. Herein we reported a patient who was a 27-year-old foreign workman brought to the emergency ward with blurred vision in both eyes, neck pain, somnolence, and altered mental status. He had no known medical or family history.