Falls in Hospital Causing Injury.

Aims: To describe falls causing injury, types of injuries, and the reporting of these falls.

Methods: Administrative and incident reporting datasets between July 2012 and June 2017 were analyzed.

Results: Using both datasets, 5,653 falls were identified (3.

Paediatric medulloblastoma: patterns of care and radiotherapy quality assurance in Australia.

The purpose of this study was to document how children in Australia with medulloblastoma are being treated and to evaluate the quality of radiotherapy (RT) delivered. The Radiotherapy Database of the Australian and New Zealand Children's Haematology and Oncology Group was used to identify 46 children with medulloblastoma younger than the age of 15 years treated with radical intent by craniospinal irradiation between 1997 and 1999 inclusively. Twenty-six patients had completely resected disease without evidence of disease spread.

Use of topical misoprostol to reduce radiation-induced mucositis: results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

Radiation-induced mucositis is an acute reaction of the mucosa of patients undergoing head and neck radiotherapy. It can have debilitating and dose-limiting consequences. There is no consensus on an accepted intervention that significantly reduces its severity.

Anterior tongue cancer and the incidence of cervical lymph node metastases with increasing tumour thickness: should elective treatment to the neck be standard practice in all patients?

Background: There is an increasing risk of cervical lymph node metastases as tumour thickness increases in patients with anterior tongue squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). The role of elective neck treatment in early anterior tongue cancer in unclear.

Methods: Patients diagnosed with anterior tongue cancer and treated with glossectomy +/- neck dissection were identified.

Tongue cancer: do patients younger than 40 do worse?

Background: Debate continues as to whether being young confers a worse prognosis for patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue. Recent papers have provided conflicting views in this debate. In this study we aimed to investigate if young age at the time of diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue confers a worse prognosis.