Publications by authors named "M Fagnano"
Objective: To evaluate the feasibility of a novel intervention of health literacy-informed, telemedicine-enhanced asthma education and home management support for hospitalized children and caregivers, and assess caregiver perspectives of the intervention.
Methods: We conducted a pilot randomized trial of the Telehealth Education for Asthma Connecting Hospital and Home (TEACHH) intervention vs. standardized care (SC) for children (5-13 yrs) hospitalized with asthma.
The availability of grafts to replace small-diameter arteries remains an unmet clinical need. Here, the validated methodology is reported for a novel hybrid tissue-engineered vascular graft that aims to match the natural structure of small-size arteries. The blood vessel mimic (BVM) comprises an internal conduit of co-electrospun gelatin and polycaprolactone (PCL) nanofibers (corresponding to the tunica intima of an artery), reinforced by an additional layer of PCL aligned fibers (the internal elastic membrane).
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- Soil contamination at outdoor shooting ranges poses risks to human health, especially when the land is later used for recreation or agriculture.
- The study in southern Italy used a multisensor approach that included various tools and analyses to evaluate land degradation, which involved measuring soil properties and assessing the presence of potentially toxic elements (PTEs).
- Results showed a correlation between soil contamination and anthropogenic factors, emphasizing the importance of using multiple sensor data to effectively map and understand the degradation of soil quality in these areas.
Objective: To test the effectiveness of a telemedicine-based program in reducing asthma morbidity among children who present to the emergency department (ED) for asthma, by facilitating primary care follow-up and promoting delivery of guideline-based care.
Study Design: We included children (3-12 years of age) with persistent asthma who presented to the ED for asthma, who were then randomly assigned to Telemedicine Enhanced Asthma Management through the Emergency Department (TEAM-ED) or enhanced usual care. TEAM-ED included (1) school-based telemedicine follow-ups, completed by a primary care provider, (2) point-of-care prompting to promote guideline-based care, and 3) an opportunity for 2 additional telemedicine follow-ups.
Mulching is a common practice for improving crop yield and obtaining an out-of-season production, but when made using plastic materials it can bring environmental problems due to the management and the disposal of films at the end of the cropping seasons. To increase the sustainability of this practice, recently, mulching films made with biodegradable organic materials have become more widely used. Our aim was to evaluate the effect of a biodegradable mulching film on yield and qualitative traits of the San Marzano tomato fruits over two years (2014 and 2015).
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