The Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital (OPBG) is a Research and Health Care Institute (IRCCS), organized in four sites located in Lazio Region (Roma Gianicolo, Roma S. Paolo, Palidoro, S. Marinella) and three sites located in Calabria, Basilicata and Sicily respectively. The OPBG as IRCCS, must always continue and reinforce its commitment in the integration of research and clinical practice, and ...

Family Medicine residency programs must change substantially to prepare for new family physicians a model of practice for the 21st century. This article describes 10 essential skills that are part of a new model of family medicine and the educational changes and resources needed to obtain them. These skills include management of a population of patients, patient-centered care, personal medical ...

the effect of educational program based on basnef model on the pregnant mothers` physical activity     shakeri m [1] *, fekri sh [2] , shahnavaz a [3]     received: 05 sep, 2012 accepted: 06 dec, 2012     abstract   background & aims : regular physical activity is an important role in pregnancy, therefore this investigation was carried out in order to assess thee effect of educational program b...

OBJECTIVE The authors conducted a postal survey to establish what the current sedative and analgesic practice in selected Australian intensive care units was. METHODS A questionnaire based on a European e-mail survey was devised and then posted to directors and senior Intensivists in 72 Australian intensive care units. RESULTS There were 47 returns out of 72 units. The most commonly used dr...

BACKGROUND Continuous care (one anaesthesiologist per patient) and anaesthesiologist empathy at the preoperative visit could affect patient anxiety and satisfaction. We tested both unproven issues in a population at increased risk of anxiety and dissatisfaction. METHODS In this single-blinded single-centre study, 136 women undergoing gynaecologic day-care surgery were sequentially randomized ...

INTRODUCTION Meropenem bactericidal activity depends on the time when the free drug concentrations remain above the minimum inhibitory concentration of pathogens. The goal of this study was to compare clinical and bacteriological efficacy of continuous meropenem infusion versus bolus administration in critically ill patients with severe infection, and to evaluate the safety of both dosing regim...

For more 20 years, noninvasive blood pressure (NIBP) monitors have been widely used in operating rooms and critical care units to closely monitor blood pressure in patients of all ages. Despite the widespread use of automated blood pressure monitors, clinicians continue to deliberate over the accuracy and reliability of automated NIBP devices compared to other methods of blood pressure determin...

The pupose of this paper is modeling of Partial Digest Problem (PDP) as a mathematical programming problem. In this paper we present a new viewpoint of PDP. We formulate the PDP as a continuous optimization problem and develope a method to solve this problem. Finally we constract a linear programming model for the problem with an additional constraint. This later model can be solved by the simp...