Cranial trauma in ancient Greece: from Homer to classical authors.

This article presents literary evidence on traumatic cranio-cerebral injuries in ancient Greece from about 900 B.C. to 100 B.

Workload and case-mix in a Greek emergency department.

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the workload and case-mix of the Emergency Department of a referral hospital, with the aim of determining the causes of overcrowding. The study was of a descriptive prospective design and was carried out in a 700-bed university hospital covering a population of approximately 200,000 inhabitants. The total number of patient visits to the Emergency Department and hospital admissions were recorded during one year, whereas the case-mix of patients visiting the department was evaluated during 11 consecutive on-call days using a triage scale with four categories of patient severity.