Sometimes, instead, negative or non-specific physical examination findings are ascribable to the lack of experience of health operators (traumatic lesions erroneously classified as inflammatory lesions, anatomical anomalies) (Adams et al. 2004; Stewart 2011).
These systems are generally preferred by clinicians and health operators because they are so simple that individual scores can be assessed immediately, without using any data processing system.
The infant vaccination informed consent forms that were presented by the health operators at the four vaccination centres were analysed with respect to completeness and clarity.
Scoring systems are frequently preferred by clinicians and health operators because they are so simple that individual scores can be assessed immediately, without using any data processing system.
Settings of care in which health operators tend to adopt a top-down approach and patients play a passive role may be poorly effective in achieving communication or developing self-efficacy and a balanced long-term patient-professional relationship (23).
Time constraints and shortage of pedagogic and communication competencies may limit the ability of health operators to perceive the feelings of patients with chronic diseases (24) and become additional obstacles to their achievement of awareness and empowerment (23).
LTBI should be well integrated among the TB control program for migrants and must be part of a wider approach with the aim of facilitating access of migrants to the national health system, re-orienting health services, improving the adhesion to anti-tuberculosis treatment in cases of active TB, and promoting early diagnosis of active TB cases by primary care health operators [ 35].
The information provided to women and to health operators should always be independent and evidence-based, dealing with: the concept of menopause as part of the natural life cycle; symptoms strictly related to the menopause, their duration and the available treatments; risks and benefits of the treatments available (pharmacological and alternative therapies); useful lifestyle changes.
In brief, traditional individual visits were substituted with group education sessions held every 2 to 3 months (type 1 diabetes) or 3 to 4 months (type 2 diabetes) by one to two health operators (doctor, nurse, dietitian, educator, or psychopedagogue) who act as facilitators according to the methodological principles of adult learning.
For all these reasons, the team working with elderly demented people must be supported by the real contribution of the physician and the physiotherapist, but also of the OT and the "educator", and must work in connection with the social-field operators and the other health-operators (neurologist, neuro-psychologist, nurse), including "MMG" and geriatrician.
