Table 1.

Characteristics of the surveyed Italian centres (name of the Author, region, city, name of the Institution, bed availability, academic vs non‐academic, and public vs private).

Author	Region	City	Institution	Urology staff members, n	Beds, n	Academic vs non‐academic	Public vs private
Amenta	Veneto	Portogruaro	Azienda ULSS n.4 Veneto Orientale	9	240	Non‐academic	Public
Annino	Tuscany	Arezzo	Ospedale San Donato, AUSL 8	9	510	Non‐academic	Public
Antonelli	Veneto	Verona	Ospedale Maggiore Borgo Trento	15	682	Academic	Public
Borghesi	Liguria	Genova	Ospedale San Martino	15	1400	Academic	Public
Bove	Lazio	Rome	Ospedale San Carlo di Nancy di Roma	7	230	Academic	Public
Bozzini	Lombardy	Busto Arsizio	ASST Valle Olona	12	1564	Non‐academic	Public
Caffarelli	Marche	Ancona	Villa Igea	6	224	Non‐academic	Private
Celia	Veneto	Bassano	Ospedale San Bassiano	11	406	Non‐academic	Public
Ceruti	Piedmont	Turin	AOU Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino	22	1481	Academic	Public
Cindolo	Emilia Romagna	Modena	Hesperia Hospital	12	125	Non‐academic	Private
Cindolo	Lazio	Rome	Villa Stuart	2	50	Non‐academic	Private
Falabella	Basilicata	Potenza	San Carlo di Potenza	7	500	Non‐academic	Public
Falsaperla	Sicily	Catania	ARNAS Garibaldi Hospital, Catania,	9	1000	Non‐academic	Public
Galfano	Lombardy	Milan	ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda	10	1213	Non‐academic	Public
Gallo	Liguria	Savona	Ospedale San Paolo di Savona	10	472	Non‐academic	Public
Greco	Lombardy	Bergamo	Humanitas Gavazzeni	8	311	Non‐academic	Private
Leonardo	Lazio	Rome	Policlinico Umberto I	11	1200	Academic	Public
Minervini	Tuscany	Florence	AOU Careggi	26	1309	Academic	Public
Nucciotti	Tuscany	Grosseto	Azienda USLToscana Sud Est	6	445	Non‐academic	Public
Pagliarulo	Apulia	Lecce	Ospedale Vito Fazzi	8	1249	Non academic	Public
Parma	Lombardy	Mantova	Ospedale Carlo Poma	10	628	Non‐academic	Public
Pastore	Lazio	Latina	Sapienza University	4	341	Academic	Public
Pini	Lombardy	Milan	San Raffaele Turro	17	188	Non‐academic	Private
Porreca	Veneto	Abano terme	Policlinico Abano Terme	7	205	Non‐academic	Private
Pucci	Campania	Naples	Azienda Ospedaliera A. Cardarelli	16	850	Non‐academic	Public
Rocco	Emilia Romagna	Modena	Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Modena	12	1108	Academic	Public
Schiavina	Emilia Romagna	Bologna	AOU Policlinico Sant‐Orsola‐Malpighi	16	1487	Academic	Public
Sciorio	Lombardy	Lecco	ASST Ospedale Manzoni	7	750	Non‐academic	Public
Varca	Lombardy	Garbagnate	ASAT Rhodense Ospedale Guido Salvini di Garbagnate	6	539	Non‐academic	Public
Veneziano	Calabria	Reggio Calabria	AO Bianchi‐Melacrino‐Morelli	9	600	Non‐academic	Public
Verze	Campania	Salerno	AOU San Giovanni di Rio e Ruggi d'Aragona	6	642	Academic	Public
Volpe	Piedmont	Novara	Ospedale Maggiore della Carità	9	711	Academic	Public
Zaramella	Piedmont	Biella	Ospedale degli Infermi	7	490	Non‐academic	Public