Publications by authors named "Dario Catozzi"
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic led to a significant reorganization of health services, potentially affecting the quality of care for major public health concerns such as proximal femoral fractures. This study aimed to investigate potential changes in the timing of various steps in the patient journey after a hip fracture during the pandemic in Piedmont, a region in Northern Italy.
Methods: A retrospective study was conducted on the discharge records of patients aged 65 or older who were admitted for hip surgery following a femur fracture in 2019 and 2020.
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- The study called GLASS looked at how many journalists and regular people struggle to understand health-related information.
- Out of 665 participants, many journalists reported having low health literacy, especially those who don't usually write about health topics.
- The results suggest that journalists should work more closely with health experts to help improve public understanding, which is especially important during health crises like pandemics.
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- This study looked at how the pandemic lockdown affected people's feelings and eating habits in Italy, focusing on depression and emotional overeating.
- It involved 1,865 adults answering questions online, revealing that more than half felt depressed and many were overeating.
- The results showed that women, students, and people with unhealthy diets or who smoked were more likely to feel depressed, while eating healthier and exercising helped reduce depression.
Objectives: The health effects of work-time arrangements have been largely studied for long working hours, whereas a lack of knowledge remains regarding the potential health impact of reduced work-time interventions. Therefore, we conducted this review in order to assess the relationships between work-time reduction and health outcomes.
Design: Systematic review of published studies.
Data about self-perceived food choice (FC) changes and their determinants during COVID-19 lockdowns are limited. This study investigated how the Italian lockdown affected self-perceived food purchases (FP), occurrence of impulse buying (IB), household food waste production (HFWP) and their determinants. A web-based cross-sectional survey was distributed in May 2020, collecting an opportunistic sample of the Italian population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF: Since medication errors related to incorrect administration routes are less common than other errors, they are rarely considered when assessing patient mistakes. The present review was performed to search for papers assessing incorrect route medication errors made by adult patients with the aim of providing an overview of this phenomenon.: PubMed, Scopus, and EMBASE were searched up to October 2019 using free text and MeSH terms, returning 7609 results.
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- Influenza causes thousands of deaths annually, and while healthcare workers (HCWs) can spread the virus, their vaccination rates are low.
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of 52 studies revealed that 61% of HCWs support mandatory vaccination, but acceptance varies significantly by continent and profession.
- The findings suggest that vaccinated HCWs are more likely to favor mandatory vaccination, highlighting the need for more research on this topic, especially given the potential public health risks posed by flu epidemics and overlapping pandemics.