Transferring inpatient rehabilitation facility cancer patients back to acute care (TRIPBAC).

Objective: To determine predictive factors for TRansferring Inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) cancer Patients Back to Acute Care (TRIPBAC).

Design: A retrospective chart review of patients with cancer admitted to an IRF from 2009 to 2010 because of a functional impairment that developed as a direct consequence of their cancer or its treatment.

Setting: IRF of a community-based, academic, tertiary care facility.

[Long-term inpatient treatment of extreme juvenile obesity: an 18-month catamnestic study].

Eighteen months after completion of long-term treatment of 98 extremely overweight juveniles in the rehabilitation center Insula, this study revealed an improvement in the age-specific body mass index (BMI-SDS) in 55.1% of the cases, when all the non-responders (approx. 22%) were evaluated as failures.

[Alcohol and aggression--violence prone drivers preventing passing maneuvers].

1. The regulation that currently applies to driving bans is not an "ineffective weapon". The span of sanction of 1 to 3 months is sufficient.

[Revoking the right to drive--a blunt weapon against alcohol intoxicated drivers, hit-and-run drivers and speed limit and red light offenders?].

The differences of the driving ban are determined by the text of law and the type of offence (drink driving, hit-and-run driving) or minor infringement. "Levelling down" is inappropriate. Character defects can be compensated by re-training programmes for drivers, years of sound driving experience and economic difficulties (unemployment).

Comparison between prolactin, gonadotrophins and steroid hormones in serum and follicular fluid after stimulation with gonadotrophin-releasing hormone agonists and human menopausal gonadotrophin for an in-vitro fertilization programme.

The inter-relationship between serum and follicular fluid prolactin, oestradiol, progesterone, follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), and luteinizing hormone (LH) in two groups of women was investigated. In group 1, 32 women were treated with gonadotrophin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRH-a) in a long term protocol and subsequently stimulated with human menopausal gonadotrophin (HMG). In group 2, 25 women were simultaneously stimulated with GnRH-a in a short protocol with HMG.

[Exceptions for revoking the driver's license of alcohol intoxicated drivers at apprehension and during initial withdrawal].

Exceptions from the withdrawal of permission to drive should be allowed primarily to first offenders. In case of alcohol conspicuous first offenders a post-schooling course has a positive influence to exceptions, if a favourable prognosis for the future can be made especially in case of total abstinence instead of "Controlled Drinking": In spite of longstanding good reputation (minimum 25 years) exceptions to the withdrawal of permission to drive are excluded if the blood alcohol concentration exceeded 1.8/1000.

[Premature return of the drivers' license--temporal limits according to section 69 a Abs. 7 StGB].

1) Text of law and kind of crime (driving under the influence of alcohol) don't allow a reduction of the minimal period of revocation. 2) A new definition of section 69 a Abs. 7 StGB and a reduction respectively a renunciation of minimal period of revocation should give possibility to courts and reprieval authorities to ensure the inclusion of a large number of persons suitable for additional training and in cases of total abstinence traffic authority should regard the aptitude for participation in traffic as regranted.

[Reducing the duration of revoked driving permit penalty in alcoholic drivers following psychological remedial traffic education].

1) Also new facts--driver improvement, longstanding good reputation in road traffic (minimum 25 years)--are only conditionally acceptable to substantiate a reduction in the blocking period in terms of section 69 a section 7 StGB. 2) A high blood alcohol level (as from 0.2 g %) precludes the reduction in the blocking period for obtaining a driving licence of drunken drivers.

[Driving fitness of apprehended alcoholics--fitness test and remedial psychological traffic education].

1) No Therapy Without Screening: According to the prevailing opinion of jurists and psychologists) who are occupied with problems concerning post-schooling and of the traffic authorities in charge of issuing driving licences screening is absolutely necessary with regard to traffic-psychological post-schoolings as characteristical maladjustments of either reparable or irreparable nature can only be detected at such screening). Only medical and psychological screening can help to achieve the necessary clarification.) Screening is frequently connected with counselling for therapy, as it is for example stressed in the names of the institutions concerned in the länder of Rhineland-Palatine, North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony).

[Some focal points for penalty apportionment and penalty suspension in the assessment of alcohol-related road traffic accidents].

According to a great number of judgements by law courts the authors show different criterions for and against fixing a prison sentence and for and against suspension of punishment for probation in cases of drunken driving. The criterions depend partly on the way of committing an offence, partly on the person of the offender and partly even on his actions after the offence and before punishment. On principle an execution of punishment is necessary in cases of mortal drunken driving.

[Long-term safe driving practice--a bonus for alcohol perpetrators and those leaving the scene of an accident and its limitations].

Authors report about considerations to leave the driving license or to shorten the waiting period to receive back license in cases of a first alcohol offence or a flight after an accident when driver had a long driving experience. In 1981 such efforts were distinctly discussed for the first time. Meanwhile they have been taken up by jurisdiction, especially by law--courts of Saarland.

Ultrasonographic and hormonal studies in physiologic and insufficient menstrual cycles.

Intraovarian morphologic alterations in 6 physiologic menstrual cycles were studied by sonography and compared with 13 inadequate cycles with a short or missing luteal phase. In addition, basal body temperature, 17 beta-estradiol, luteinizing hormone, progesterone, testosterone, and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate levels in serum were measured. The maximal follicle was significantly smaller in insufficient cycles (17.

Ultrasonographic and endocrinological studies of ovarian function.

Ovarian morphological alterations in 6 physiological menstrual cycles were studied by sonography and compared to 13 inadequate cycles with a short or missing luteal phase. In addition, basal body temperature (BBT) and 17-beta-estradiol (E2), luteinizing hormone (LH), progesterone (P), testosterone (T) and dehydro-epiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEA-S) levels in serum were measured. Maximal follicle were significantly smaller in insufficient cycles (17.