Accidental hypothermia: incidence, risk factors and clinical course of patients admitted to hospital.

This study was initiated to identify the incidence, risk factors and outcome predictors of patients admitted to hospital in the Netherlands because of accidental hypothermia. Information about these patients was available for study through the National Health Care Data Bank. Between 1987 and 1990, 612 accidental hypothermic patients were admitted: 185 hypothermic patients also suffered from submersion (HYPSUBS), but this was not the case in the remaining 427 patients (HYPNOTSUBS).

The diabetic foot in Dutch hospitals: epidemiological features and clinical outcome.

Objective: To assess the impact of the diabetic foot on the hospitalization of patients with diabetes mellitus in The Netherlands.

Methods: Data on hospitalizations of patients with diabetes mellitus for the years 1988 and 1989 were obtained from the Dutch Information System on Hospital Care. Analysis of the data was performed if in the discharge summary a code number for chronic ulcer of the lower extremity, osteomyelitis or gangrene was reported.

Effect of epidemic influenza on ketoacidosis, pneumonia and death in diabetes mellitus: a hospital register survey of 1976-1979 in The Netherlands.

The influence of epidemic influenza on hospitalizations because of influenza, pneumonia and diabetic acidosis in patients with diabetes mellitus was investigated. Data on the weekly incidence of influenza-like illness were obtained from the Continuous Morbidity Registration and the cumulative data on hospitalizations in short-stay hospitals were obtained from the National Medical Registration. Patients with duodenal ulcer were used as a control population.