The aim of this observational study was to assess rates of suicide and suicide attempts, in
relation to gender, age, place of birth and security levels, in north-eastern Italian prisons …

Background Fair management of queues for hospital-based services requires consideration
of clinical need, but there is no information on public attitudes towards non-clinical factors …

Objectives: to measure whether people aged 65 and over living in Britain would be willing
to give up their place on the cardiac surgery waiting list for someone younger than them. …

Background and aims To validate a set of indicators for monitoring the quality of care of
patients with diabetes in ‘real-life’ practice through its relationship with measurable clinical …

• First, the epidemiologic and cultural context is addressed in order to understand the peculiarity
of oncology, a medical discipline in which the risk is directly related to the daily clinical …

The diffusion of forms of health care alternatives to hospital admission is at the center of a
heated debate that, in recent years, has encouraged actors and experts in the Italian health …

Editor—Spurgeon et al’s findings on waiting times in England for patients with cancer are
worrying to say the least. 1 Nevertheless, the authors understate the problem because they …

The use of cardiac catheterization procedures and the number of hemodynamic laboratories
in Italy increased steadily from 1983 through 1993, sometimes with no planning or modern …

A quality improvement system has been established in 1989 in the hospital network of
Padua and its organization is described. Three selected experiences are reported. (1) …

The Italian Ministry of Health signed a Decree in October 1996, 1 which introduced into the
Italian healthcare system a set of 53 indicators as a tool for the external assessment of quality …