The effect of revascularization procedures on myocardial infarction incidence rates and time trends: the MONICA-Brianza and CAMUNI MI registries in Northern Italy.

Purpose: Clinical guidelines recommend early reperfusion treatment in myocardial infarction (MI) patients to reduce the cardiac damage. Epidemiologic definitions of MI are often based on the evolution of the cardiac lesion. We aim to study the effect of treatment on the estimates of rates and 20-year time trends of MI.

[A multi-dimensional evaluation of job stress integrating organizational and subjective risk indicators: one application to health care workers in Northern Italy].

Job stress is a multi-dimensional construct which requires a number of different parameters to be fully evaluated. The interaction of situational and individual factors could result into different patterns of job stress, closely connected to the working environment investigated. We present a method in which administrative and self-reported data are integrated, to describe the risk profile of health care workers in an university hospital in Northern Italy.