A new predictive score, called the "Elderly Nursing Home Placement" (ENHP) score, has been developed to identify elderly individuals at risk of requiring nursing home care.
The study analyzed healthcare data from over 2.4 million citizens aged 65 and older in Lombardy, Italy, using case-control methodology to find key factors influencing nursing home admission.
The ENHP score demonstrated strong predictive performance, helping healthcare decision-makers target support services to those most in need, potentially reducing unnecessary nursing home placements.*
Comparing vaccination campaigns' effectiveness in preventing deaths shows a significant public health impact, focusing on overall excess deaths rather than just COVID-19 specific fatalities.
A predictive model analyzed daily deaths in three Italian regions from 2015-2019 to estimate excess deaths during vaccination from December 2020 to October 2022.
Lombardy had the highest vaccination rates and prevented more deaths (65%) compared to Marche (60%) and Sicily (58%), but due to lower overall excess mortality, the actual number of averted deaths per 10,000 people was less in Lombardy than in the other two regions.
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