437 research outputs found

    Per una storia dell'incunabolistica napoletana (secoli XVIII-XX). Prime schede

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    Il contributo fornisce una panoramica ben rappresentativa degli studi di incunabolistica napoletana, dei suoi principali studiosi e delle loro opere, a partire dai primi tentativi dell'ultimo Settecento, fino alla moderna impresa, sollecitata da Benedetto Croce, di Mariano Fava e Giovanni Bresciano (inizi Novecento), che rimane l'ultimo tentativo di censire sistematicamente la produzione a stampa quattrocentesca di Napoli

    Evaluation of medical prescription costs for systemic antibiotics in the Ferrara USL

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    This report presents the results of a study of the costs of medical prescriptions for patients in the Ferrara USL region; prescriptions from general and specialist physicians for systemic antibiotics were examined. The top five categories accounting for the highest cost of the prescribed antibiotics were examined for the period between the second half of 1997 through the second half of 1999. Data on the variation in pharmaceutical costs over time, total pharmaceutical costs versus total health costs, the relative rate of total pharmaceutical costs, and a comparison of the per person pharmaceutical costs in Ferrara, the regional districts and the national averages are presented. A challenge in the study was the lack of diagnostic information on the prescriptions, leading to an inability to assess the appropriateness of the medication for the diagnosis. Proper training for physicians, using guidelines, could represent one means of improving the quality and optimal use of limited resource..
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