Sense of coherence and physical health-related quality of life in Italian chronic patients: the mediating role of the mental component.

Objective: To examine the relationship between sense of coherence (SOC) and physical health-related quality of life in patients with chronic illnesses by focusing on the mediating role of the mental component of quality of life.

Design: Cross-sectional survey design.

Setting: Secondary care; three departments of an Italian university hospital.

[Accurate compiling of the hospital discharge records according to clinicians' perception: critical issues and perspectives].

Objectives: to explore clinicians vision on hospital discharge records in order to identify useful elements to foster a more accurate compiling.

Design: qualitative research with phenomenological approach.

Setting And Participants: participants were selected through purposive sampling among clinicians of two hospitals located in Sardinia; the sample included 76 people (32 medical directors and 44 doctors in training).