A card game to renew urban parks: Face-to-face and online approach for the inclusive involvement of local community.

Urban parks are often designed and renewed using standardized models that fail to incorporate the different functions and services required by the local communities served. Furthermore, when the citizens are involved in co-design, the participation processes are seldom fully inclusive, and the results are not representative of the entire local community. The paper starts from these considerations for developing an innovative participatory design method to renew urban parks.

Characterization of the anticonvulsant profile of valpromide derivatives.

The antiepileptic activity of nine derivatives of valpromide is discussed. They comply with a pharmacophore model that establishes the essential structural and electronic features responsible for the protection against the MES test. The model results from the comparison of 17 structures, using density functional methodologies combined with an active analog approach.

[The ICD9-ICD9 CM coding system: what is the variance of DRG classification in cardiology?].

Background: To use the standard DRG grouper, software records must be presented using the diagnostic and procedure codes in the International Classification of Diseases--9th revision--Clinical Modification (ICD9 CM). In Italy, diagnoses are coded in the International Classification of Disease--9th revision (ICD9) and it was necessary to perform an ICD9-ICD9 CM diagnostic coding translation.

Aim Of The Study: To measure the number of misallocations (in the assignation of DRGs) due to the utilization of ICD9 rather than ICD9 CM.

Effectiveness of Selective Use of Intravenous Pyelography in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department with Ureteral Colic.

Objective: To determine whether IV pyelography (IVP) is required routinely for all patients presenting to the ED with ureteral colic.

Methods: A randomized prospective study was conducted with 2 patient groups-a routine IVP group, in which all patients underwent IVP, and a selective IVP group, in which patients were treated, observed, and released without undergoing IVP unless they experienced continued symptoms. The study was performed in a large university-affiliated, community hospital ED.

Effectiveness of selective use of intravenous pyelography in patients presenting to the emergency department with ureteral colic.

Objective: To determine whether i.v. pyelography (IVP) is required routinely for all patients presenting to the ED with ureteral colic.