Epidemiol Prev
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This study analyzes the causes of domestic accidents in children (age <15) living in the Local Social Sanitary Unit of Padua (Ulss). ME Italy, with regard to the circumstances of the accident and the socioeconomic level of the family. ⋯ The incidence of the Ulss of Padua is higher than the national incidence: the gap is limited to pre-school age for which the incidence of Padua, age-standardized on Italian population and extrapolated for three months, is 18.8% per hundred while tri-monthly national incidence is 11.7% per hundred. No differences in rates were noticed in school age (6.5% per hundred for Padua vs. 6.4% per hundred for Italy). Findings regarding the circumstances of injuries are consistent with other surveys carried out in Italy and elsewhere. No particular causing factor of accidents emerged. However, the avoidability of accidents attributable to the adult's behaviour is to be noticed.
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to evaluate the informative capability of merging data from police and medical data-sets in the assessment of adverse health effects and costs for the health system of road traffic accidents in an urban area (Florence City). ⋯ record linkage between Municipal Police and routinely collected medical data-sets is an useful method to assess health adverse effects and costs for health system of road traffic accidents, allowing to analyse the characteristics of casualties by type of road user. Besides, at a local level, the method allows to identify the more dangerous roads taking into account also the severity of injuries.
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Time trends of process and impact indicators in Italian mammography screening programmes--1996-2004.
Since 1990, the Italian Group for Mammography Screening (GISMa) has been promoting the development of new organised programmes and performing a yearly systematic survey of data activity. The screening extension has increased over time, reaching an overall 76.4% of coverage in 2005. The geographical extension is still heterogeneous, with a higher distribution in Northern and Central Italy compared with Southern and Insular Italy, where the screening activity was implemented only recently. ⋯ An improvement in quality with the increase of programme experience is evident. programmes with more than 6 years of activity, compared with newer programmes, show a recall rate in first screening of 6.5%; RR. 0.87 (0.84-0.89), a PPV of 1.7, RR:1.61 (1.48-1.75) andan overall detection rate of 7.6% per hundred, RR:1.41 (1.29-1.55). These results are consistent with those observed in other European programmes and encourage to explore new analysis strategies. The website of the National Centre for Screening Monitoring (ONS) is http://www.osservatorionazionalescreening.it.