Publications by authors named "Annamaria Bargagli"
Introduction And Aims: To corroborate protective effects of a range of drug treatment modalities against overdose mortality risk.
Design And Methods: Nested case-control study, with incidence density sampling, selecting controls retrospectively at each case event. Cases and controls came from a sub-cohort of opioid-dependent patients (n = 4444) from two Italian regions (Lazio and Piedmont).
Article Synopsis
- - The study aimed to identify relapse episodes in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) patients in the Lazio region using health administrative databases and validate the algorithm with data from MS treatment centers.
- - A total of 6,094 MS patients were identified, with the algorithm confirming 2,242 patients as attending centers, yielding a positive predictive value (PPV) of 58.9% and a negative predictive value (NPV) of 76.3%.
- - The algorithm, while not reliable for detecting relapses, could be useful for tracking healthcare utilization and identifying worsening patient health conditions.