Italian in-hospital emergency number: A call for action

The Italian domatic number of a digraph

An {em Italian dominating function} on a digraph $D$ with vertex set $V(D)$ is defined as a function$fcolon V(D)to {0, 1, 2}$ such that every vertex $vin V(D)$ with $f(v)=0$ has at least two in-neighborsassigned 1 under $f$ or one in-neighbor $w$ with $f(w)=2$. A set ${f_1,f_2,ldots,f_d}$ of distinctItalian dominating functions on $D$ with the property that $sum_{i=1}^d f_i(v)le 2$ for each $vi...

Health Surveillance in Italian workers formerly exposed to asbestos: a call to action for policy makers.

Spirituality as a sociocultural determinant of health in the context of medical curriculum: A call for action

Background: This study aimed to investigate the state of spirituality in the general medicine curricula in Iran.    Methods: Reference books for general medicine were reviewed and data were analyzed according to the qualitative content analysis method.    Results: After reviewing references, it was found that only 35 paragraphs of the educational reference pages dealt with this subject. Relat...

Patient outcome of emergency laparotomy improved with increasing “number of surgeons on-call” in a university hospital: Audit loop

AIM Emergency laparotomy is a commonly performed high-mortality surgical procedure. The National Emergency Laparotomy Network (NELA) published an average mortality rate of 11.1% and a median length of stay equivalent to 16.3 days in patients undergoing emergency laparotomy. This study presents a completed audit loop after implementing the change of increasing the number of on-call surgeons in t...

Hospital Admissions for Hypertensive Crisis in the Emergency Departments: A Large Multicenter Italian Study

Epidemiological data on the impact of hypertensive crises (emergencies and urgencies) on referral to the Emergency Departments (EDs) are lacking, in spite of the evidence that they may be life-threatening conditions. We performed a multicenter study to identify all patients aged 18 years and over who were admitted to 10 Italian EDs during 2009 for hypertensive crises (systolic blood pressure ≥2...