Patients' Satisfaction by SmileIn Totems in Radiotherapy: A Two-Year Mono-Institutional Experience.

Background: Patient's satisfaction is recognized as an indicator to monitor quality in healthcare services. Patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) may contribute to create a benchmark of hospital performance by assessing quality and safety in cancer care.

Methods: The areas of interest assessed were: patient-centric welcome perception (PCWP), punctuality, professionalism and comfort using the Lean Six Sigma (LSS) methodology.

Non-HDL cholesterol predicts coronary heart disease in primary prevention: findings from an Italian 40-69 year-old cohort in general practice.

Objects: Non-HDL cholesterol is now recommended as an index of risk associated with combined dyslipidemia, and it has also been found useful in predicting coronary heart disease (CHD) risk in patients with diabetes. We studied the association between known CHD risk factors, enclosed non-HDL cholesterol, and a "high CHD risk condition", i.e.

[Relationship between the assessment of coronary risk using the Italian chart and the assessment with the New Zealand chart].

Objective: To describe the distribution of coronary risk in primary prevention using both the New Zealand and Italian charts, and to assess whether there is a relationship between the two scales built on data from populations at different natural coronary risk.

Design: Descriptive study.

Setting: Carpi's district, Territorial Health Authority in Modena province.

A diagnosis of left ventricular hypertrophy on ECG is associated with a high cardiovascular risk: findings from a 40- to 69-year-old cohort in general practice.

Objective: Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an independent cardiovascular (CV) risk factor in both sexes. We studied if a diagnosis of LVH on electrocardiogram (ECG) was associated with a 'high CV risk condition' among 40- to 69-year-old individuals cared for by GPs.

Methods: We studied 4250 individuals, 5.

[Electromyography and electroneurography in the follow-up study of carpal tunnel syndrome patients].

Electromyography is an useful method for the postoperative follow-up of carpal tunnel syndrome. In patients without sensory and motor signs EMG is able to differentiate those still suffering from subjective symptoms such as pain and paraesthesias.

[Value of neurophysiologic methods in the follow-up of Cloward's multiple cervical vertebral fusion].

In 11 patients suffering from radicular and in some cases also medullary symptoms anterior spinal fusion at 2 or 3 cervical levels was performed. At follow-up radicular pain had disappeared, and no clinical deficits were found with the exception of one previously tetraparetic patient. Neurophysiological studies including needle electromyography, conduction velocity studies and somatosensory evoked potentials showed, however, that denervation potentials persisted frequently in the C7-C8-T1 innervated muscles, while those innervated by the upper cervical roots were normal in all patients.

Brain stem auditory evoked potentials in early evaluation of cerebral concussion.

In 37 patients brainstem auditory evoked potentials were recorded within 48 hours from a mild head injury. About half of the patients had at least one abnormal neurophysiological parameter pointing to dysfunction of brainstem structure.