Neonatology and pediatric care in Lombardy : results of a knowledge survey-2003

In the first few months of 2004, the Italian Society of Pediatrics (ISP)--Lombardy section, in collaboration with the regional section of the Italian Society of Neonatology (ISN) and the Italian Society of Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Urgency (ISEMPU), has elaborated a questionnaire with the aim of obtaining the most complete information on the activity carried out by the different OU of Neonatology, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Pediatrics of the Lombardy Region, during the year 2003. This data collection was considered indispensable in order to begin a profitable confrontation with the General Direction of Health of our Region on the main themes such as: definition of staff organigrams, limitation of the "escape from the hospital to the Territorial Primary Care Pediatrics" of the Pediatricians, eventual added Regional Study Grants, and an integration of the by now insufficient Ministerial Grants, and concrete measures of interaction between Hospital-Territorial Community Based Pediatrics.