Home access to hospital discharge information on audiotape reduces sick leave and readmissions in patients with first-time myocardial infarction.

A prospective, randomized study was carried out to investigate whether repeated hospital discharge information on audiotape at home could improve knowledge and rehabilitation in patients with first-time myocardial infarction. The study comprised 50 patients (12 females and 38 males) of up to 75 years of age. At discharge, 26 patients were given tape recordings to use at home for one week, while 24 patients represented controls.

[Patient information on tape].

Giving patients access at home to tape recordings of their hospital discharge information was thought to improve the patient information. There could be an effect on their knowledge of their own disease and possibly also on clinical events. 50 patients with first time myocardial infarction were included; 26 received tape recordings and tape players.

Morphology and development of an apoeccrine sweat gland in human axillae.

Evidence is presented that in adult human axillae there exists a third type of sweat gland tentatively designated as the apoeccrine sweat gland. This type of gland shows a segmental or diffuse apocrinelike dilatation of its secretory tubule but has a long and thin duct which does not open into a hair follicle. The electron microscopy of its dilated segment is often indistinguishable from that of the classical apocrine gland.