Health care costs and functional outcomes of road traffic injuries in the Lazio region of Italy.

The economic consequences of road traffic injuries (RTIs) are very important in terms of health care costs. The aim of this study is to provide estimates of health care costs of non-fatal RTIs and to estimate functional outcomes using in-hospital rehabilitation data. We identified all emergency department (ED) visits related to RTI during 2008 and then linked them with hospital discharges and rehabilitation admissions, health care costs following RTI were estimated from the integrated database.

Use of health and social care services in a cohort of Italian dementia patients.

The aim of this study, conducted in the Region of Lazio, Italy, in 2008-2010, was to describe the use, over a one-year period, of health and social care services in a cohort of 712 patients with a diagnosis of dementia. These patients had never previously used such services. We evaluated the association between the patients' sociodemographic and clinical characteristics and their use of services.

[Estimating prevalence of diabetes mellitus in a Lazio province, Italy, by capture-recapture models].

Objective: to estimate the prevalence of diabetes in a Lazio province, Italy, using a record linkage offour patient lists and applying capture-recapture techniques.

Design And Setting: we selected records of individuals living in Viterbo province (Lazio region, Italy) from four lists obtained from three different health administrative registries in 2004: the hospital discharge registry of Lazio region (ICD9-CM code 250, 2488 subjects); the registry of outpatient care prescriptions (subjects exempted from medical charge for health care related to diabetes, 3582 subjects); subjects with prescriptions of glicate haemoglobin (7169 subjects); the registry of exemptions, from medical charge for health care of the local health unit of Viterbo province, related to diabetes (8529 subjects). A deterministic record linkage using 5 different keys of linkage obtained from demographic information, was applied The estimates were derived using two capture-recapture techniques: log-linear models and sample-coverage approach.