The establishment, monitoring and evaluation of community care services

(from the chapter) in many Western countries and in other parts of the world, a gradual shift has occurred in the organization of psychiatric services from hospital-centred to community care / in respect of community care, the situation in Italy is unique, both in terms of the speed at which the changes toward a community-based system of psychiatric care have occurred, and also because the nature of the new psychiatric services is prescribed by law / [discusses the] need for a more general and integrated evaluation of the actual care system ((c) 1997 APA/PsycINFO, all rights reserved

Immunogenetics of the Lennox-Gastaut syndrome: frequency of HL-A antigens and haplotypes in patients and first-degree relatives

Twenty-two patients with the Lennox-Gastaut syndrome and their families were examined for HL-A antigens by the microlymphocytotoxicity test. The antigen HL-A7 belonging to the HL-A locus showed a significantly increased frequency (p less than 0.0005) both in parents and in patients. The same antigen showed a significantly altered segregation in patients but a normal one in healthy siblings. Another antigen of the second HL-A locus, HL-A12, did not display a normal segregation in our patients, in whom it was nearly not represented