Publications by authors named "Giulia Dal Co"
Monitoring compliance with standards of care for chronic diseases using healthcare administrative databases in Italy: Strengths and limitations.
Rosa Gini Martijn J Schuemie Alessandro Pasqua Emanuele Carlini Francesco Profili Iacopo Cricelli Paolo Francesconi Francesco Lapi Giulia Dal Co
PLoS One
January 2018
Article Synopsis
- A recent OECD report suggested Italy should regularly monitor primary care quality for chronic diseases via compliance with care standards.
- A study comparing estimates of care compliance for type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and ischemic heart disease from administrative data versus GP records found that using GP records identified significantly more cases, highlighting flaws in administrative data.
- The research indicated that administrative data missed many patients and overestimated compliance with diagnostic tests, emphasizing the need for more comprehensive data evaluation to accurately assess healthcare quality.
Automatic identification of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, ischaemic heart disease, heart failure and their levels of severity from Italian General Practitioners' electronic medical records: a validation study.
Rosa Gini Martijn J Schuemie Giampiero Mazzaglia Francesco Lapi Paolo Francesconi Iacopo Cricelli Giulia Dal Co
BMJ Open
December 2016
Objectives: The Italian project MATRICE aimed to assess how well cases of type 2 diabetes (T2DM), hypertension, ischaemic heart disease (IHD) and heart failure (HF) and their levels of severity can be automatically extracted from the Health Search/CSD Longitudinal Patient Database (HSD). From the medical records of the general practitioners (GP) who volunteered to participate, cases were extracted by algorithms based on diagnosis codes, keywords, drug prescriptions and results of diagnostic tests. A random sample of identified cases was validated by interviewing their GPs.
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