A Multicomponent Primary-Care Intervention for Preventing Falls in Older Adults Living in the Community: The PREMIO Study.

Background: Falls are a common cause of morbidity and functional impairment in the elderly and represent a significant health problem. General practitioners (GPs) are the first point of contact for health issues and may provide preventive services. The randomized clinical trial PREMIO was conducted by GPs to evaluate the effects of a multicomponent intervention for the prevention of falls in older adults aged ≥ 65 years at high risk of falling.

A Decision Support System for Diabetes Chronic Care Models Based on General Practitioner Engagement and EHR Data Sharing.

Objective Decision support systems (DSS) have been developed and promoted for their potential to improve quality of health care. However, there is a lack of common clinical strategy and a poor management of clinical resources and erroneous implementation of preventive medicine. Methods To overcome this problem, this work proposed an integrated system that relies on the creation and sharing of a database extracted from GPs' Electronic Health Records (EHRs) within the Netmedica Italian (NMI) cloud infrastructure.

Sharing health data among general practitioners: The Nu.Sa. project.

Today, e-health has entered the everyday work flow in the form of a variety of healthcare providers. General practitioners (GPs) are the largest category in the public sanitary service, with about 60,000 GPs throughout Italy. Here, we present the Nu.

Discovering the Type 2 Diabetes in Electronic Health Records Using the Sparse Balanced Support Vector Machine.

The diagnosis of type 2 diabetes (T2D) at an early stage has a key role for an adequate T2D integrated management system and patient's follow-up. Recent years have witnessed an increasing amount of available electronic health record (EHR) data and machine learning (ML) techniques have been considerably evolving. However, managing and modeling this amount of information may lead to several challenges, such as overfitting, model interpretability, and computational cost.

[Human Papillomavirus infection and vaccination: knowledge and attitudes of Italian general practitioners].

Objective: To assess General Pratictioner's (GPs) knowledge and attitudes about HPV infection and prevention.

Design And Participants: A semi-structured survey was conducted from November to December 2013 among Italian GPs. Descriptive and univariate analyses were carried out.