Publications by authors named "Maria Teresa Cuppone"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how body fat distribution, particularly abdominal obesity (AO), affects the immune response to a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine booster in individuals with a history of infection.
- Researchers measured specific antibody levels in 511 subjects over several months after receiving the booster dose, looking at differences between those with and without AO.
- Results suggest that people with AO who were previously infected show a stronger immune response after the booster, indicating that this group may benefit from the additional dose of the vaccine.
Risk management in healthcare, intended as all processes employed to detect, monitor, assess, mitigate, and prevent risks in healthcare facilities and safeguard patient safety, is a crucial component of Italy' National Health Service. Aim of the current study is to assess the role and progress of research and training, in the field of Risk Management. We carried out a scientometric analysis to quantify and describe scientific outputs on Risk Management at the global and national level, over the last forty years; in addiction, we conducted a national-level cross-sectional survey to systematically retrieve and assess research and training activities within Italian postgraduate medical programmes in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Our aim was to evaluate how many medical requests for US, CT and MR outpatients exams are inadequate.
Materials And Methods: We evaluated three series of consecutive requests for outpatients exams, distinguishing firstly the adequate from the inadequate requests. The inadequate requests were classified as: (A) absence of real indication; (B) lacking or vague clinical query; (C) absence of important information on patient's status.