Sodium imaging (Na-MRI) is of interest in neurological conditions given potential sensitivity to the physiological and metabolic status of tissues. Benchmarks have so far been restricted to parenchyma or grey/white matter (GM/WM). We investigate (1) the availability of evidence, (2) regional pooled estimates and (3) variability attributable to region/methodology.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNew-onset epileptic seizures and status epilepticus (SE) are the most frequent neurological manifestations of non-ketotic hyperglycemia (NKH), an acute complication of diabetes mellitus (DM). Treatment consists of the correction of the underlying metabolic disorder, whereas anti-seizure medications (ASMs) may even worsen seizures. Evidence on NKH-related seizures is currently restricted to case reports and small case-series.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis
March 2018
A national hand hygiene promotion campaign based on the World Health Organization (WHO) multimodal, Clean Care is Safer Care campaign was launched in Italy in 2007. One hundred seventy-five hospitals from 14 of 20 Italian regions participated. Data were collected using methods and tools provided by the WHO campaign, translated into Italian.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnn Ist Super Sanita
November 2010
The characteristics of laboratories performing tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic procedures were investigated in ten Italian Regions, through a mailed questionnaire. Three hundred and eighty laboratories answered (70.8 % response rate), 250 of which performed directly at least one TB diagnostic procedure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The aim of this study is to measure the intra- and intertester reliability of the Upper Limb Neurodynamic Test 1 in asymptomatic subjects with respect to onset of pain, submaximal pain (SP), first resistance (R1), and second resistance, and determine the effect of several repetitions of the test.
Methods: Three physiotherapists evaluated the dominant upper arm of 36 asymptomatic adult subjects 5 times with an electrogoniometer.
Results: Intratester reliability for R1 was good with an intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC 3,1) ranging from 0.
Unlabelled: In the caring professions it is important to be able to assess not only knowledge and competencies but also the behavior of future professionals in the different sectors of health care. The aim of this work is to define and describe the core values of the health professions and shed light on the essential values which act as the basis for future behavior. Many international documents (League of Nursing, American Board of International Medicine), define the Core Values of specific professions as the bases on which teaching and training curricula are founded.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To describe the use of systemic antibiotics in the paediatric population of the Emilia-Romagna region (Italy) during the period 2000-2002.
Methods: Data were extracted from the drug prescription database of Emilia-Romagna.
Results: Treatment rates were within the range 1016-1151 treatments per 1000 children-years, according to the observed year.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
May 2005
Objectives: To quantify the occurrence of surgical-site infections (SSIs) in an Italian region and to estimate the proportion of potentially avoidable infections through benchmarking comparison.
Design: Prospective study during 1 month based on a convenience sample of surgical patients admitted to 31 public hospitals. All of the patients undergoing an intervention included among the 44 operative procedures of the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System were enrolled.