SURplus, un prodotto per la valutazione e la rendicontazione della ricerca

Scientific research is one of the main institutional tasks of any Italian university. Accounting and reporting on research results for evaluation purposes is a necessary but timeconsuming effort for researchers and administration offices. All data and output that are created from a plethora of different research activities need to be collected, turn them into a consistent format and make them available in a continuous stream. Moreover, wide publication and dissemination of results is requested for every research project and is fundamental for research careers and funding. SUR+ (SURPLUS) is an integrated system for research management that aims to control several workflows related to research activities and their results in the academic environment. It enhances the internal and external visibility of research activities, and provides real-time monitoring tools, reporting and exporting facilities. SUR+ is formed from several interoperable application modules, that can be adopted separately. This presentation will deal with the OA (Open Archive) module, a repository that collects, describes, indexes, and distributes the intellectual output of institutional research activities. Based on the open-source software application DSpace, designed and developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Hewlett-Packard labs, SUR+ OA is a userfriendly tool that can be accessed by any researcher belonging to the institution to submit his/her own publications. Simple metadata are compiled by the submitter and checked/completed by a librarian. Publication details can be reused in different applications, from the SUR+ WF module for project management to the "Professor site" of the Ministry, from the personal web page of the researcher to any bibliographical list. The use of standards formats and protocols such as Dublin Core, XML, OAI-PMH, ensures compliancy with the architectures of the Open Archives Initiative and the broadest dissemination of open-access scholarly literature for higher institutional visibility and the public benefit

SURplus, un prodotto per la valutazione e la rendicontazione della ricerca

Scientific research is one of the main institutional tasks of any Italian university. Accounting and reporting on research results for evaluation purposes is a necessary but timeconsuming effort for researchers and administration offices. All data and output that are created from a plethora of different research activities need to be collected, turn them into a consistent format and make them available in a continuous stream. Moreover, wide publication and dissemination of results is requested for every research project and is fundamental for research careers and funding. SUR+ (SURPLUS) is an integrated system for research management that aims to control several workflows related to research activities and their results in the academic environment. It enhances the internal and external visibility of research activities, and provides real-time monitoring tools, reporting and exporting facilities. SUR+ is formed from several interoperable application modules, that can be adopted separately. This presentation will deal with the OA (Open Archive) module, a repository that collects, describes, indexes, and distributes the intellectual output of institutional research activities. Based on the open-source software application DSpace, designed and developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Hewlett-Packard labs, SUR+ OA is a userfriendly tool that can be accessed by any researcher belonging to the institution to submit his/her own publications. Simple metadata are compiled by the submitter and checked/completed by a librarian. Publication details can be reused in different applications, from the SUR+ WF module for project management to the "Professor site" of the Ministry, from the personal web page of the researcher to any bibliographical list. The use of standards formats and protocols such as Dublin Core, XML, OAI-PMH, ensures compliancy with the architectures of the Open Archives Initiative and the broadest dissemination of open-access scholarly literature for higher institutional visibility and the public benefit

Improved results of the vacuum assisted closure and Nitinol clips sternal closure after postoperative deep sternal wound infection

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A decalogue for end-of-life care in Internal Medicine

Since a large number of patients with chronical medical diseases die in hospital, often in an internal medicine ward, internists are urged to improve their expertise in end-of-life (EOL) care, which is a neglected part of their academic education. Recently, FADOI (the Italian Federation of the Associations Hospital Doctors on Internal Medicine) has addressed EOL-medicine in many ways, promoting many scientific meetings on this and allied topics, providing educational material made available in its website on a free basis and establishing an ad hoc Committee charged with the task of organizing dedicated events annually. The Committee has also elaborated a series of recommendations on EOL-care in internal medicine (a decalogue), reflecting largely shared visions. It has been endorsed also by ANIMO (the Association of the Italian Nurses working in an Internal Medicine Department). The decalogue for EOL care in internal medicine is issued here, and calls for its diffusion and implementation. The driving concept is that doctors and nurses must feel responsible for disregarding appropriate EOL-care for the dying patients, because delaying it means to add suffering and discomfort to them in the final phase of their existence

Activity of chemotherapy in mucinous ovarian cancer with a recurrence free interval of more than 6 months: results from the SOCRATES retrospective study

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Mucinous ovarian carcinoma have a poorer prognosis compared with other histological subtypes. The aim of this study was to evaluate, retrospectively, the activity of chemotherapy in patients with platinum sensitive recurrent mucinous ovarian cancer.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>The SOCRATES study retrospectively assessed the pattern of care of a cohort of patients with recurrent platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer observed in the years 2000–2002 in 37 Italian centres. Data were collected between April and September 2005. Patients with recurrent ovarian cancer with > 6 months of platinum free interval were considered eligible.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Twenty patients with mucinous histotype and 388 patients with other histotypes were analyzed. At baseline, mucinous tumours differed from the others for an higher number of patients with lower tumor grading (p = 0.0056) and less advanced FIGO stage (p = 0.025). At time of recurrence, a statistically significant difference was found in performance status (worse in mucinous, p = 0.024). About 20% of patients underwent secondary cytoreduction in both groups, but a lower number of patients were optimally debulked in the mucinous group (p = 0.03). Patients with mucinous cancer received more frequently single agent platinum than platinum based-combination therapy or other non-platinum schedules as second line therapy (p = 0.026), with a response rate lower than in non-mucinous group (36.4% vs 62.6%, respectively, p = 0.04). Median time to progression and overall survival were worse for mucinous ovarian cancer. Finally, mucinous cancer received a lower number of chemotherapy lines (p = 0.0023).</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>This analysis shows that platinum sensitive mucinous ovarian cancer has a poor response to chemotherapy. Studies dedicated to this histological subgroup are needed.</p

CILEA: un REBOOT per affrontare nuove sfide

The challenges that CILEA has to face nowadays are complex for many reasons. The program for 2011 has been named REBOOT (Relaunch and Organizational and Technologic Tradeoff), computer metaphor that summarizes the need to restart the organizational and technologic engines of the Consortium, refilling internal resources and system skills that, as you can see in this issue of the Bulletin, are various and excellent.Le sfide che CILEA si trova oggi ad affrontare sono sicuramente complesse sotto molti aspetti. Non a caso il piano programmatico 2011 è stato denominato REBOOT (Rilancio E Bilanciamento OrganizzativO e Tecnologico), metafora informatica che riassume efficacemente la necessità di riavviare i motori organizzativi e tecnologici del Consorzio, ricaricando al meglio risorse interne e competenze di sistema che, come potrete constatare sfogliando questo numero del Bollettino, sono molte ed eccellenti

Proseguire sulla strada delle sinergie: interne ed esterne

The crisis and the narrowness of resources urge the need for synergies both in production and in internal organization, and for inter-consortium collaboration at a national level in order to face technologic and organization innovation.Il periodo di crisi e la limitatezza di risorse sollecita l'esigenza di procedere sulla strada delle sinergie sia nella produzione e organizzazione interna sia, a livello nazionale, nella collaborazione inter-consortile per affrontare grandi temi di innovazione tecnologica e organizzativa

Università e lavoro

Il 10/10/2006 sono stati presentati presso Assolombarda i due volumi Rapporto statistico sui laureati del triennio 2003–2005 e il Rapporto sull’indagine occupazionale postlaurea dei laureati del II e III quadrimestre 2004 (rilevazione dell’aprile 2006). La giornata è stata occasione di interessanti approfondimenti sul rapporto tra formazione universitaria, dinamiche sociali e occupazione. Nella tavola rotonda che ne è seguita, sono emersi interessanti spunti di riflessione. Ne diamo di seguito un breve resoconto

Università e lavoro - Quali saperi e metodi per attrezzare i giovani al dopo università

On the 11th of January 2007 a conference took place in Palermo, in the striking frame of the Steri palace. The conference, titled “University and work – what knowledge is necessary to equip students for after the university”, was organised by the University of Palermo. It has been an important opportunity to show the data of the second occupational survey STELLA, with a specific attention toward data concerning Palermo and Sicily. We well here briefly describe the conference. A deeper view into the subject is available on the STELLA project website.Nella suggestiva cornice di Palazzo Steri si è svolto l’11 Gennaio 2007 a Palermo un convegno dal titolo “Università e lavoro – Quali saperi e metodi per attrezzare i giovani al dopo università”, organizzato dall’Università degli Studi di Palermo. È stata una importante occasione per presentare i dati della seconda indagine occupazionale STELLA (Statistica in Tema di Laureati e LAvoro), con particolare attenzione alla realtà palermitana e siciliana. Di seguito riportiamo una breve relazione della giornata, rimandando al sito STELLA[1] per eventuali approfondimenti