Objective: To describe the unaccompanied minors' reasons for consulting and their health problems managed in a permanence of access to health care (PASS) at the Hospices civils de Lyon.
Methods: Consultation data of the unaccompanied minors cared for in 2016 and 2017 at the Edouard Herriot Hospital PASS, Lyon, were collected and coded according to the International Classification of Primary Care (CISP-2).
Results: The majority of unaccompanied minors were male adolescents from French-speaking sub-Saharan African countries.
Background: A mass influenza A/H1N1 vaccination campaign took place in France during the 2009 winter. Overall, 7.9% of the general population was vaccinated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Within the framework of a quality initiative aiming to improve HIV patients' care in our therapeutic educational unit, and to meet the recommendations of the Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS) regarding the evaluation of educational programs, we carried out a satisfaction survey among patients. Our goal was to identify their needs thanks to the analysis of questionnaires in order to improve their care.
Patients And Method: Anonymous questionnaires were proposed and collected for two months during a medical or educational consultation or during a renewal of prescription.
Gastroenterol Clin Biol
January 2010
Multiple, concomitant or successive hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections have been described in injection drug users and following organ transplantation and blood transfusion. However, data on sexual HCV reinfection is scarce. We report sexual HCV reinfection following viral eradication of a first HCV infection in two homosexual HIV-infected men.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe describe 3 symptomatic cases of neurologic syphilis that occurred after the administration of the usual therapy for primary or secondary syphilis in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients. We discuss the difficulty of diagnosing neurosyphilis, the need for lumbar puncture, and risk factors of relapse. Because HIV infection may alter the natural history and response of neurologic syphilis to treatment, scrupulous follow-up and repeated cycles of therapy are warranted.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Five years after introducing the Permanent Access to Healthcare activity (PASS), it became necessary to analyse how it works.
Material And Methods: A computerized data collection and assessment system intended to evaluate the PASS health activities has been set up in 11 University Hospitals and ten General Hospitals. From January 1st to June, 30th 2003 data was captured in a computer.
Objectives: Our purpose was to evaluate the prevalence of thrombocytopenia related to human immunodeficiency virus among seropositive pregnant women and its impact on maternal and neonatal outcome.
Study Design: A retrospective survey of all deliveries of women infected with human immunodeficiency virus in 14 maternity units in France over a 6-year period collected data on mothers who had thrombocytopenia < 100.10(9)/ and their infants.