Illicit drug contamination of the Bristol pound local currency.

Reports have shown the prevalence of the contamination of banknotes with a number of different drugs. These studies have focused on investigating drug contamination levels on currency which is either nationally or even international distributed. To present there has been no studies undertaken on banknotes circulating in well-defined and limited geographic areas.

What do patients want and not want to see about themselves on the computer screen: a qualitative study.

Objective: To explore patients' views about what they would or would not like to read on the computer screen, and how this might be managed.

Design: A qualitative study using semi-structured interviews with patients who had recently consulted, and who were representative of the age-sex structure of our practice population.

Setting: Primary health care, patients' homes.

Computers in the consultation: the patient's view.

Background: The use of computers in general practice consultations is becoming widespread.

Aim: A qualitative study was undertaken to determine how patients in one practice responded to the use of computers, and the issues which particularly concerned them when doctors used computers in the consultation.

Method: Thirty patients whose age-sex characteristics were proportional to the age-sex distribution of one practice were selected to be interviewed within two weeks of a consultation.

Infant care review committees. The response to federal guidelines.

A 1986 survey of hospitals with neonatal intensive care units and/or 1500 or more births indicated (1) which hospitals had established infant care review committees and (2) what hospital and committee characteristics influenced the functioning of infant care review committees. Of the hospitals surveyed, 51.8% had established infant care review committees.