Does admission to a department of internal medicine improve patients' quality of life?
As judged by the expert panels, the investigated department of internal medicine was effective in improving the QoL of 81% of the admitted patients. Whilst most of the patients achieved small gains, a minority had gains in QoL corresponding to the treatment of life-threatening diseases.
DVT limited to a single vein occurs with sufficient frequency that the US screening survey cannot be abbreviated without loss of diagnostic efficacy.