Role of turnover, downsizing, overtime and night shifts on workplace violence against healthcare workers: a seven-year ecological study.

Background: About one-third of workers identify organisational factors as contributors to workplace violence (WPV), but the associations between these factors and WPV have primarily been explored retrospectively and with measures of perceived organisational constraints, hence providing limited information for prevention. Therefore, we assessed whether objectively measured ward-level indicators of turnover, downsizing, overtime, and night shifts are associated with the occurrence of WPV and whether these associations vary by ward type.

Methods: We conducted an ecological study at a university hospital in northern Italy from 2016 to 2022, using wards as statistical unit (average: 230 wards per year).

[Familial facial paralysis. Generalised cortical hyperostosis (author's transl)].

Generalised cortical hyperostosis is a rare disease. In our own field it involves the lower jaw and the skull. Certain nerves, including the facial, may be compressed as a result.

[Petromastoid clearance using plastic surgery in the surveillance of large cavities. Re-suture of the ear canal (author's transl)].

The lesions met with in chronic otitis media and especially in cholesteatoma, can be extremely widespread and, after petromastoid clearance there is a large resulting cavity which is impossible to survey by the usual route of the ear canal. A plastic surgical technique on the ear canal, is described which allows an easy surveillance without esthetic damage. It consists of a resection of a part of the cartilage of the ear canal with conservation of the skin of the inner and outer ear canal.