The SYSTEMIC Project: A Pilot Study to Develop a Registry of Patients With an Ostomy for Predictive Modeling of Outcomes.

Background: Stomal and peristomal skin complications represent a significant burden on the physical and psychological well-being of patients.

Purpose: To develop a predictive tool for identifying the risk of complications in patients following ostomy surgery.

Methods: The oStomY regiSTry prEdictive ModelIng outCome (SYSTEMIC) project was developed to improve patient-oriented outcomes.

Perceived aggression towards nurses: study in two Italian health institutions.

Aims: The goal of the present study was to quantify the perceived aggression towards nurses working in two Italian health care institutions and to verify the hypothesis of an association between the characteristics of aggressors and the type of aggression.

Background: Violence and aggressiveness, particularly aimed at nurses, are a common, but inadequately investigated phenomenon in Italian health care institutions.

Design: A cross-sectional study.