Evaluation of midwife-led care provided at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital.

Objective: To compare the outcome of care given to women 'booking' for delivery in a midwife-led maternity unit with that for comparable women 'booking' for care in a consultant obstetric unit.

Design And Method: Prospective cohort study with a quasi-experimental design and data extracted from case notes.

Setting: East Dorset, midwife-led maternity unit at Royal Bournemouth Hospital and consultant-led maternity unit at Poole General Hospital.

Orthopaedic geriatric care--is it effective? A prospective population-based comparison of outcome in fractured neck of femur.

Orthopaedic geriatric care has become widely accepted despite relatively little formal evaluation. In the East Dorset health authority all patients with fractured neck of femur initially share common orthopaedic facilities but only those from one geographical sector have subsequent access to an orthopaedic geriatric unit, patients from the other sector receiving standard care. We have carried out a prospective population-based comparison of the outcome of 155 consecutive incident cases of fractured neck of femur aged over 65 years.

Histochemical studies of hepatocellular carcinomas in the rat induced by aflatoxin.

A histochemical study has been done on a group of 18 hepatocarcinomas induced by aflatoxin. One hundred per cent, incidence of hepatocarcinomas is induced by feeding 5 p.p.

Histochemical studies on the early proliferative lesion induced in the rat liver by aflatoxin.

Male inbred Fischer rats were fed a diet containing 5 p.p.m.