Professional and personal experiences of workplace violence among Italian mental health nurses: A qualitative study.

Background: Violence against healthcare workers in psychiatric settings is a concern in the literature. Violence effects for healthcare professionals and organizations include an absence from work due to injury or illness, a decreased job satisfaction, and a lower quality of work. The aim of this study is to identify the consequences of violence on the health, work habits, and performance of nurses working with psychiatric patients.

12 real forensic cases solved by the DNA STR-typing of skeletal remains exposed to extreme environment conditions, without the conventional bone pulverization step.

DNA identification of human skeletal remains play a valuable role in the forensic field, especially in missing persons and mass disasters investigation. Hard tissues, such as bones and teeth, represent a very common kind of samples analyzed in forensic laboratories because often they are the only biological materials remaining. However, the major limitation in using these compact samples rely on time consuming and labor-intensive treatment of grinding them into powder before proceeding with the conventional DNA purification and extraction step.

Endoscopic transorbital approach for recurrent spheno-orbital meningiomas: single center case series.

Endoscopic transorbital approaches (ETOAs) are finding wide application for skull base lesions, particularly for spheno-orbital meningiomas (SOMs). These tumors have high recurrence rates, and second surgery can often represent a challenge. In this study we analyze our experience of management of recurrent SOMs through a slightly modified eyelid crease approach.

Cochlear implantation in otosclerosis: surgical and audiological outcomes between ossified and non-ossified cochlea.

Aim: To evaluate (1) Audiological and surgical outcomes in patients with otosclerosis following cochlear implantation. (2) surgical difficulties and outcomes between both groups. (3) Audiological outcomes between both groups.

The weekend factor: the effect on healthcare quality. A medico-legal, retrospective study.

Background: In the healthcare system, in the last 30 years, the prognostically negative value of the so-called Weekend Effect (WE) has been internationally recognized. The WE is regarded as the increased risk a patient might incur when hospitalized during non-working days, of enduring severe complications in comparison to the same hospitalization that occur on working days. The aim of this study was to retrospectively verify whether, once a mistake was made during weekends or on holidays, in comparison to a mistake occurred on workdays, it subsequently implied a higher risk of complications, death included, in a statistical and medico-legal way.