Publications by authors named "N Agabiti"

This work is the third in a series of articles dedicated to the EASY-NET network programme. The first article described the rationale, structure, and methodologies; while the second evaluated the adherence of individual audit&feedback A&F interventions tested in EASY-NET to literature recommendations. This contribution provides a concise summary of the effectiveness results of A&ented by clinical and organizational areas: chronic disease management, emergency territorial and hospital care for acute conditions, post-acute rehabilitation, hospital oncology care, childbirth, and caesarean sections.

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Italy is a destination country for a growing international migration, accounting for 8.4% of the total population. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the difficulties in accessing healthcare services among immigrants, and barriers due to linguistic and cultural differences had a significant impact during the pandemic.

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Background: according to the literature, socially disadvantaged strata of the population, including immigrants, have been more vulnerable to the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection due to greater exposure and less opportunity to protect themselves, and to COVID-19 complications due to metabolic and clinical risk factors as well as to healthcare access barriers. Two Italian projects - coordinated by the Italian National Institute for Health, Migration and Poverty and the Italian National Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - set up an epidemiological surveillance to monitor the temporal trends of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in five Italian regions using validated indicators.

Objectives: to identify differences between Italians and immigrants in terms of the epidemic evolution and its health consequences, and to investigate possible differences by urbanisation degree and region of residence.

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Objectives: to describe indicators, data sources, and levels of geographical stratification used within the framework of the CCM project "Epidemiological Surveillance and Control of COVID-19 in Metropolitan Urban Areas and for the containment of SARS-CoV-2 circulation in the immigrant population in Italy".

Design: population-based observational study based on data from the Integrated Covid-19 Surveillance System and the archive of hospital discharge records.

Setting And Participants: interregional collaborative project.

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Article Synopsis
  • The study aimed to estimate the prevalence and distribution of schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) in the Lazio region using healthcare databases from 2006 to 2019.
  • Researchers found a total of 18,371 cases, resulting in an overall prevalence of 5.03 per 1000 people, with notable variations based on age and geographical areas within the region.
  • The findings indicated that SSD is more prevalent among older adults and men, with conditions like schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder being the most common, highlighting the importance of using administrative data for epidemiological research.
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