ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1599845
This article is part of the Research TopicEnsuring Public Health: The Active Role of Healthcare ProfessionalsView all 30 articles
IdentIRCCS. The description of healthcare professionals employed within IRCCS University Hospital of Bologna.
Provisionally accepted
- 1Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
- 2Steering Committe, Centro Studi SAPIS Foundation, Italian National Federation of Orders of Radiographers and Technical, Rehabilitation, and Prevention Health Professions Research Centre, Rome, Italy
- 3SPIR, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- 4Centro Studi SAPIS Foundation, Italian National Federation of Orders of Radiographers and Technical, Rehabilitation, and Prevention Health Professions Research Centre, Rome, Italy
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Globally research centres in healthcare sector express the excellence in the translational medicine, from the evidence-based medicine to the evidence-based practice. In Italy, Institutes of Hospitalization and Healthcare with Scientific Goal (called IRCCS) are recognized as the driving force of innovation within healthcare sector. It is reasonable to expect that health professionals working within IRCCS institutions should embody professional excellence in a setting characterized by technological and organizational excellence. Nevertheless, in Italian public IRCCS, the personnel are selected by public competitions without any specific requirements in relation with the specific working context. According to the cur-rent state-of-art, this research aims to investigate the characteristic of healthcare professionals currently employed within Italian IRCCS facilities. IRCCS University Hospital of Bologna was chosen as suitable case study due to the enlargement of top management within the Healthcare Professions Directorate, that manifests a particular sensibility to-ward healthcare professionals growing. Dataset on personnel included sociodemographic information (age, sex, place of birth, residence, domicile), professional details (job category, role, working hours, training, allowances, contribution), and training status (household composition, number of children, number of dependents, physical limitations). The detailed description of healthcare professionals em-ployed within the case study supports evidence-based decision-making for the development of corpo-rate welfare policies and of targeted management strategies, useful and applicable in each healthcare re-search centre worldwide.
Keywords: welfare, Management, health professionals, decision-making, data analysis
Received: 25 Mar 2025; Accepted: 25 Aug 2025.
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* Correspondence: Silvio Quirini, SPIR, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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