OBJECTIVE: To report on the validation process of a new functional assessment scale (Valutazione Funzionale Mielolesi [VFM]) for patients with spinal cord injury (SCI). DESIGN: Prospective study testi...
OBJECTIVE: To assess the validity of SAPS II (new Simplified Acute Physiology Score) in a cohort of patients admitted to a large sample of Italian intensive care units (ICU). DESIGN AND SETTING: The a...
Although Intensive Care Units (ICU) are present in most of the Italian Hospitals for acute patients, the heterogeneity of the patients case-mix and the large variation in structural, organizational an...
OBJECTIVES: This study sought to compare the performance of the old and new versions of the Simplified Acute Physiology Score, SAPS and SAPS II, in classifying patients according to the risk of hospit...
BACKGROUND: There is conflicting evidence on the efficacy of regional adjuvant chemotherapy, via portal-vein infusion (PVI), after resection of colorectal cancer. We undertook a randomised controlled ...
BACKGROUND: In 1989, the authors began a randomized trial to determine whether 5-fluorouracil and high dose folinic acid (HD-FUFA) would increase the event free and overall survival of patients with r...