Cluster of measles cases in the Roma/Sinti population, Italy, June-September 2006.

Three clusters of measles cases occurred between June and September 2006, in the Roma/Sinti populations in three different Italian regions: the Bolzano-South Tyrol in northern Italy; Lazio in central Italy; and the island of Sardinia in the southwest.

[Anthropometric study of the Sassari population 6 to 11 years of age]. / Studio antropometrico della popolazione sassarese da 6 a 11 anni.

The average values [+/- SD) for height and weight of 1518 males and 1333 females between 6 and 11 years of age from the city of Sassari (Sardinia) have been determined. Numerical values and smooth curves from the 3rd to the 97th percentile for height and weight have also been calculated. The results were compared with those of the literature and particularly with those published by De Toni et Al. 20 years ago. The data show a significant increase in height and weight among Sardinian children during the past 20 years. The availability of these new curves will permit a more correct evaluation of growth in Sardinian children.

[The evaluation of outpatient nursing care according to the client's perception]. / Avaliação da assistência ambulatorial de enfermagem segundo a percepção do cliente.

This study reveals the clients perception of a pediatric ambulatory in a great University Hospital, about the quality of the offered nursing assistance. An investigation was oriented by the phenomenologic approach which propitiated the reveling of reality investigated from the analysis of the interviewed clients discourses. The studied answers were grouped in three categories: the Nursing Work, the Nursing Attitude and the Evaluation of the Received Assistance. Upon these topics the interviewed clients formed a not very clear concept of nursing as science and as a profession. The related aspects and the commentaries about the expected and the meeted behaviours by the nursing professionals merited a larger part of attention by the interviewed clients. The evaluation of the received attendance was centered on absence of complaints. The interviewed clients expectancy is directed towards the satisfaction of the security and acceptance needs from which the mothers of children are deprived. The attendance of this necessities give mothers conditions for establishment of a professional-client link to a therapeutic relationship. Which the devolution of the findings to the nurses responsible for the ambulatory assistance, we pretended to contribute to the improvement of the offered assistential quality.

[Evolution of the discipline "Administration Applied to Nursing" at the USP Nursing School 1980-1995]. / A evolução da disciplina de administração aplicada à enfermagem na Escola de Enfermagem da USP no período de 1980 a 1995.

With the objective to describe the evolution of the discipline "Administration Applied to Nursing", in the period from 1980 to 1995, courses' plans texts write by the academic staff responsible for their elaboration and execution were studied. Texts of the items "Objectives and Content" were analyzed under the point of view of Phenomenology, being submitted to the process of analysis of speech defined by Martins and Bicudo. The result of the procedures used in the analysis, allowed the identification of six categories of thinking: Nursing Management, Ideological and Politic Bases for Nursing Management, Comunication as an Instrument to Managing, Management of Physics Resources, Management of Material Resources and Management of Human Resources. The modification in the courses' plans observed during the studied period, evidenced two important moments--one at the end of the eighties, were the reformulation of the ideological basis which the discipline basis was adapted and another at the end of the first five years of the nineties, with curricular reorganization. The identification of this course allowed the follow-up and comprehension of the development of the discipline, providing resources for analysis of the correlated disciplines of the same discipline in other contexts and experiences.

Nursing in Brazil.

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'Idiopathic' jaundice in Sardinian full-term newborn infants: a multivariate study.

'Idiopathic' hyperbilirubinaemia in the first 4 days of life was studied in 431 unselected healthy full-term (gestational age > or = 37 weeks) singleton Sardinian infants with birthweight > or = 2500 g. All infants were free from malformations or any disease requiring treatment other than jaundice, they were ABO and Rh compatible with their mothers and were not G6PD deficient. The serum bilirubin level was > 11.9 mg/dl (204 mumol/l) and > 14.9 mg/dl (256 mumol/l) in 37.1% and 15.3% of the study subjects. The vast majority of the infants (94%) were breast fed; no difference in the incidence of jaundice was found between breast-fed and bottle-fed infants. A logistic regression analysis indicated that high alpha-fetoprotein concentrations in cord blood, history of neonatal jaundice in previous full-term siblings, delayed first meconium passage and weight loss were associated with jaundice, defined as a serum bilirubin level > 11.9 mg/dl. These results suggest that the high rate of neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia in Sardinia is mostly related to constitutional and possibly hereditary factors.