Patient-oxygen dissociation curves: surveying the spectrum of oxygen-delivery methods.

Objective: To describe the spectrum of oxygen-delivery methods.

Design: Clinical audit.

Setting: Medical wards of a tertiary referral teaching hospital in August 2004.

Interns are from Venus, consultants are from Mars: differential perception among clinicians.

Objective: To test for the presence of sex-based differences in perception (the notion that men and women "think" differently, and that differences in perception are biologically based) among healthcare professionals.

Design: Prospective survey.

Setting And Participants: 90 medical personnel at a tertiary care hospital in Newcastle, NSW.

Evidence-based physicians' dressing: a crossover trial.

Objective: To describe the effect of physicians' dress on patient confidence and trust.

Design: A prospective crossover trial involving physicians dressed in "respectable" versus "retro" attire.

Setting: A general medicine ward at a tertiary hospital.