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Income level and chronic ambulatory care sensitive conditions in adults: a multicity population-based study in ItalyNera Agabiti
Epidemiology Department, Local Health Authority RM E, Rome, Italy
BMC Public Health 9:457. 2009..The aim of this study was to determine whether income level is associated with higher hospitalization rates for ACSC in adults in a country with universal health care coverage...- Methadone treatment in clinical practice in Italy: need for improvementPatrizia Schifano
Department of Epidemiology, ASL Rome E, Rome, Italy
Eur Addict Res 12:121-7. 2006..Methadone at appropriate doses has been demonstrated to be the most effective means for retaining patients in treatment and suppressing heroin use... - Susceptibility to heat wave-related mortality: a follow-up study of a cohort of elderly in RomePatrizia Schifano
Department of Epidemiology, Local Health Authority Rome E, Rome, Italy
Environ Health 8:50. 2009..This study investigated socio-demographic characteristics and pre-existing medical conditions as effect modifiers of the risk of dying during heat waves in a cohort of elderly residents in Rome... - Temporal and geographic heterogeneity of the association between socioeconomic position and hospitalisation in Italy: an income based indicatorPatrizia Schifano
Department of Epidemiology, Health Local Unit ASL RME, Rome, Italy
Int J Equity Health 8:33. 2009..The objective of this study is to test the association between the demand for hospital care and a small area indicator based on income in four Italian cities, over a four-year period (1997-2000), in the adult population... - Indicators of breast cancer severity and appropriateness of surgery based on hospital administrative data in the Lazio Region, ItalyPatrizia Schifano
Department of Epidemiology, Health Local Unit RME, Rome, Italy
BMC Public Health 6:25. 2006..The aim of this study is to evaluate the use of hospital administrative data to determine breast cancer severity and the appropriateness of surgical treatment... - Risk of fatal overdose during and after specialist drug treatment: the VEdeTTE study, a national multi-site prospective cohort studyMarina Davoli
Department of Epidemiology, Rome, Italy
Addiction 102:1954-9. 2007..Specialist drug treatment is critical to overdose prevention; methadone maintenance is effective, but we lack evidence for other modalities. We evaluate the impact of a range of treatments for opiate dependence on overdose mortality... - VEdeTTE, a longitudinal study on effectiveness of treatments for heroin addiction in Italy: study protocol and characteristics of study populationAnna Maria Bargagli
Department of Epidemiology, ASL Rome E, Rome, Italy
Subst Use Misuse 41:1861-79. 2006..The Italian heroin-addicted population under treatment seems to have low level of education but good social integration. Compared with men, women show a higher severity. Participants show a beneficial effect of treatment... - Analysis of the recourse to conservative surgery in the treatment of breast tumorsPatrizia Schifano
Department of Epidemiology, Local Health Unit RME, Rome, Italy
Tumori 88:131-6. 2002..The aim of this study was to analyze the recourse to conservative surgery for breast tumors and its determinants (ie, characteristics of hospitals and patients)... - Determinants of methadone treatment assignment among heroin addicts on first admission to public treatment centres in ItalyAnna Maria Bargagli
Department of Epidemiology, ASL Rome E, via di S Costanza 53, 00198 Rome, Italy
Drug Alcohol Depend 79:191-9. 2005..To identify factors associated with entering any methadone treatment at first admission at an NHS treatment centre in Italy and to investigate determinants of receiving detoxification or maintenance methadone treatments... - Surveillance of summer mortality and preparedness to reduce the health impact of heat waves in ItalyPaola Michelozzi
Lazio Region Department of Epidemiology, Via di Santa Costanza, Rome, Italy
Int J Environ Res Public Health 7:2256-73. 2010..Considering future predictions of climate change, the implementation of effective prevention programs, targeted to high risk subjects, become a priority in the public health agenda... - Drug-related mortality and its impact on adult mortality in eight European countriesAnna Maria Bargagli
Department of Epidemiology, ASL Rome E, 00198 Rome, Italy
Eur J Public Health 16:198-202. 2006..To estimate the mortality rates from drug-related deaths and other causes among problem drug users and population attributable risk of death due to opiate use in eight study sites in Europe... - Is peer education the best approach for HIV prevention in schools? Findings from a randomized controlled trialPiero Borgia
Agency for Public Health, Lazio Region, Italy
J Adolesc Health 36:508-16. 2005..To evaluate the effectiveness of peer education when compared to teacher-led curricula in AIDS prevention programs conducted in schools in Rome, Italy... - Validity and reliability of the Italian translation of the MOS-HIV health survey in persons with AIDSPatrizia Schifano
Department of Epidemiology ASL RME, Rome, Italy
Qual Life Res 12:1137-46. 2003..To evaluate the validity and reliability of the Italian version of the 35-item Medical Outcome Study HIV Health Survey (MOS-HIV) when applied to persons with AIDS... - Inter-observer reliability of radiological signs of necrotising enterocolitis in a population of high-risk newbornsAnteo Di Napoli
Agency for Public Health Lazio Region, Rome, Italy
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 18:80-7. 2004..Clinical information and the presence of more than one radiological sign can reduce the margin of observer's error that inevitably exists when dealing with a diagnosis as difficult as NEC... - [Potentially avoidable hospitalisation in Bologna, 1997-2000: temporal trend and differences by income level]Monica Pirani
Osservatorio dipendenze patologiche, AUSL Parma
Epidemiol Prev 30:169-77. 2006..To describe the temporal trend of hospitalisations for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (ACSCs) from 1997 to 2000 in Bologna (Italy) and to analyze the association with the income level...