Vaccination coverage in healthcare workers: a multicenter cross-sectional study in Italy.

Introduction: In recent years, a phenomenon known as "vaccine hesitancy" has spread throughout the world, even among health workers, determining a reduction in vaccination coverage (VC).A study aimed at evaluating VC among healthcare workers (HCWs) in 10 Italian cities (L'Aquila, Genoa, Milan, Palermo, Sassari, Catanzaro, Ferrara, Catania, Naples, Messina) was performed.

Materials And Methods: Annex 3 of the Presidential Decree n.

[Antiretroviral therapy in inmates: between guidelines and reality of Italian correctional facilities].

In HIV-positive patients detention often represents a unique opportunity for health care. HIV-positive inmates enjoy the same rights as non-restricted people, as established under national and international legislation, declarations and guidelines. Antiretroviral therapy in restricted men shows some peculiarities such as the voluntary non-taking of drugs to worsen the health status or obtain legal benefits and the high frequency of concomitant psychiatric treatment.

Analysis of some variables concerning guidelines adopted in a hospital in Milan: quantity, quality and physicians' attitude; which is the reciprocal influence of these factors?

Background: Starting in 1998 the Italian NHS promoted the adoption of practice guidelines without, however, launching directions on how they should be produced and adopted. The aim of the current work was to explore the relationship between number and quality of guidelines and physicians' attitudes towards them.

Methods: All documents named 'guidelines' adopted after 1998 by each unit at the San Paolo Hospital (SPH), a 600-bed university hospital were collected.

[Incidence of lymphoproliferative diseases in Northern Italy].

Introduction: In the last 6 years we have observed an increasing number of cases of lymphoma, extranodal cases being the majority over nodal ones. This fact induced us to investigate the incidence of NHL and HD in the population served by the Lecco Hospital, Department of Pathology, as well as the temporal trend from 1990 to 1995. MATERIALS AND METHODS AND DATA: All hospitals and dispensaries located in the surrounding areas of Lecco including the district of Menaggio and Morbegno are dependent on the Department of Pathology of Lecco Hospital.