[Disabilities, access to medical care, and way of life of adults with cerebral palsy. APIB study: initial results].

Unlabelled: Cerebral palsy is defined as a nonprogressive brain lesion that occurs during prenatal or perinatal development. The Breizh IMC health network objective is to improve the knowledge about the way of life and the health status of adults with cerebral palsy.

Objective: To describe disabilities, way of life and access to medical care for older teens and adults with cerebral palsy.

Quality and completeness of histopathology reports of rectal cancer resections. Results of an audit in Brittany.

Unlabelled: Few data are available in France about implementation of guidelines for pathology reports of rectal cancer resections.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to audit quality and completeness of histopathology reports of rectal cancer resections in Brittany by comparing results with French guidelines published in 1998.

Methods: All inhabitants in Brittany who were beneficiaries of the general health insurance system and who underwent surgery for rectal cancer between February 1999 and January 2000 were included in the study.

[District program to improve the cardiovascular risk of resistant hypertensive patients in general medicine].

Purpose: To try to improve the cardiovascular risk of resistant hypertensive patients in general medicine in Brittany after using french hypertension recommendations.

Methods: 581 hypertensive patients under 3 antihypertensive drugs have asked for an exoneration of the patients' social contribution: 297 (51%) were uncontrolled at their general practitioner (GP) among whom 106 (36%) have refused to take part in the program. 191 resistant hypertensive patients followed by 170 different GP have been pre-included.

[Hysterectomy for benign lesions in Brittany: analysis of medical practices].

Objectives: By who, why and how are done hysterectomies for benign lesions.

Material: and methods. The 413 medical files of all the patients who underwent an hysterectomy for benign lesion during the last trimester of 1997 were recorded by the Medical Information Departments of the 53 health establishments of the Brittany Region.