A “child-friendly” hospital: a difficult definition

A “child-friendly” hospital: a difficult definition

It would be quite interesting and instructive to sketch the history of how children’s hospitals came to be established. Our first thought goes to the “Ospedale degli Innocenti” in Florence and the establishment of orphanages, which for many years were the only available facilities, but which took in only orphans and children abandoned by their parents. Until paediatrics became an independent br...

[Pacifier use and its relationship with early weaning in infants born at a Child-Friendly Hospital].

OBJECTIVE To assess the use of pacifiers and its relationship with early weaning among children born at a Child-Friendly Hospital. METHODS A cohort study was carried out with 250 healthy singleton babies, with birthweight > or =2,500 g, and with ongoing breastfeeding, born at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. All mothers lived in Porto Alegre. Data were collected through interviews with t...

A Programmer Friendly Modular Definition of the Semantics of Java

We propose in this paper a de nition of the semantics of Java programs which can be used as a basis for the standardization of the language and of its implementation on the Java Virtual Machine. The de nition provides a machine and system independent view of the language as it is seen by the Java programmer. It takes care to directly re ect the description in the Java language reference manual ...

Hypoglicemia related to big Haemangiopericitoma: a difficult diagnostic definition.

We describe the case of a 91 years old woman admitted to our department for dyspnea associated with drowsiness. At the admission to the Emergency Room the patient stay in a comatose state and blood tests performed showing severe hypoglycemia (38 mg/dl at admission in non diabetic patient). Anamnestic history: multifactorial anemia; frequent hospitalizations for heart failure; AMI treated with s...

The Difficult Child