The main causes of overcrowding in the Italian emergency departments (ED) are attributable to several factors including: the increasing lack of confidence in the General Practitioners, excessively long waiting times for specialist outpatient services and diagnostic tests, the increase size of the population not included in the National Health Service, the organizational evolution of ED as a...read

Speaking of centers of excellence, without talking of centers of cost, does not have any particular value, particularly in the current economic situation; mentioning some of the "pseudo interim leadership", without making a clear distinction between good and bad leadership. does not have any particular value as well. A perfect organization does not exist; it keeps a shaky balance between...read

Thrombolysis therapy is based on the use of intravenous drugs that can dissolve the blood clot (formed by platelets and fibrin and called thrombus) that is created within the cerebral arteries causing ischemic stroke. Thrombolysis is performed, after a neurologist has made the diagnosis of ischemic stroke. Treatment with r-tPA (Recombinant Tissue Plasminogen Activator) is initiated after all...read

"In some contexts, as in the public ones, there are Education titles with “legal value” that allow access to certain places or guarantee a certain score for the career, while elsewhere the same titles are not recognized and their value is limited to the skills that made it possible to acquire them. These competences, however, do not have an "absolute value" but only a value relative to the...read

If someone wanted to measure customer satisfaction of Health Organizations, one could also understand the failure of some twenty years of unnecessary structuring efforts. Historically organizations have struggled with the Weber's" bureaucratic straitjacket” and the Michels' "iron fist of oligarchic control". Perhaps more than any others, these two famous sociologists were able to photograph...read