[Medical practices in places of culture and intense architecture: how the visit experience changes.].

Cultura di Base is an experimental project realised in Torino between May and October 2022. Some General Practitioners' offices were moved to cultural places of the city, such as museums, libraries, cultural centers, with recognised quality in terms of space design and architecture. The assumption to be tested is that "intense architecture offices" can improve the experience of the visit and possibly strengthen the relationship between patient and doctor.

On the importance of primary and community healthcare in relation to global health and environmental threats: lessons from the COVID-19 crisis.

In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become clear that primary healthcare systems play a critical role in clinical care, such as patient screening, triage, physical and psychological support and also in promoting good community advice and awareness in coordination with secondary healthcare and preventive care. Because of the role of social and environmental factors in COVID-19 transmission and burden of disease, it is essential to ensure that there is adequate coordination of population-based health services and public health interventions. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the primary and community healthcare (P&CHC) system's weaknesses worldwide.

[Diagnostic imaging procedures and prescribing appropriateness: are administrative data a proper instrument? An experience from Piedmont Region (Northern Italy)].

Objectives: to assess at population level if healthcare administrative data can be suitable to identify variability and determinants of the prescribing rates for some diagnostic imaging procedures at high-risk of inappropriateness.

Design: population-based observational study.

Setting And Participants: Piedmont Region (Northern Italy) adult population (>20 years) in year 2013.

[A survey carried out among Italian physicians regarding non-required clinical examinations, treatments and procedures in the current clinical practice: results and considerations.].

A survey addressed to all Italian physicians regarding how they behave when a patient asks them to prescribe non-required clinical examinations, treatments and procedures has been carried out for the first time. The survey - realized during the last months of the year 2015 thanks to the collaboration between Slow Medicine and the National Federation of Associations of Doctors, Surgeons and Dentists - is based on a questionnaire given to the America physicians by the ABIM Foundation in 2014. The Italian survey results cannot be compared with the American ones because different approaches were used.

[Are medical students influenced by the promotion of the pharmaceutical industry?].

The pharmaceutical and medical devices industry provides one of the main sources of scientific information for physicians. The impact of this kind of information on physicians' prescribing behavior has been extensively studied. Available evidence consistently shows that prescription habits are affected by industry-driven scientific research data.

Primary surgery in rural areas of southern Sudan.

Background: We report through a retrospective analysis our experience of providing surgical care and on-the-job training through mobile surgical missions in southern Sudan during the post conflict period between 2005 and 2009.

Methods: Three surgical teams conducted 23 missions in 5 primary health care centers sited in remote areas of southern Sudan. King's analytical framework for surgical care in developing countries is adopted to evaluate the appropriateness of services rendered.

Rural surgery in southern Sudan.

Introduction: This article reports a retrospective analysis of a 6-year experience of providing surgical care in remote areas of southern Sudan under extremely adverse conditions.

Methods: Teams of expatriate consultants (surgeon, anesthetist, scrub nurse) carried out 28 "surgical missions" with the aims of treating surgical cases previously selected and of training local personnel in basic surgery on the job.

Results: A total of 1642 patients (71% males, 30% under the age of 16) have undergone an operation.