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Background: the complexity of nurse managers' role is gradually changed from assistance to management. The aim of this study is to implement an innovative indicator to globally evaluate the features, the professional skills and their performance is described. Methods: the authors found out the features of a valuable nurse managers through an...

Introduction. Hospitals are known to be the most complex entities to manage. In fact, the main problem in healthcare are the expensive needs with limited resources. During the last years the complexity of the nurse manager role has gradually changed from assistance to management. However, nowadays the methods for quantifying the nurse managers'...

Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) are a significant burden globally, with millions of patients affected each year. Healthcare-related infections are infections that arise in a patient during the course of care in a hospital or other care facility, which were not present or incubating at the time of admission. Among the member states of the...

Liguria is a northwestern region of Italy that, since the WHO has declared COVID-19 as a pandemic (11 March 2020), presented 108 patients hospitalized, 34 of which were in the intensive care unit. Due to this serious epidemiological emergency, the transformation of a long-distance ferry ship into a hospital ship for COVID-19 patients who were...

This period of pandemic has had important consequences on the flow and the entire organization of any hospital. In particular, the number of accesses to the emergency room has increased, with the consequent urgent need to reorgani ze it quickly. The model proposed in this paper allows to respond to these needs by freeing not only shifts of...

Purpose: Initial findings in patients with cancer suggest a lower seroconversion to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination possibly related to myelo-immunosuppressive therapies. We conducted a prospective study to assess factors predicting poor seroconversion and adverse events following immunisation (AEFI) to the BNT162b2 vaccine in patients on active...