Publications by authors named "Patrizio Dazzi"

Article Synopsis
  • A recent OECD report suggested Italy should regularly monitor primary care quality for chronic diseases via compliance with care standards.
  • A study comparing estimates of care compliance for type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and ischemic heart disease from administrative data versus GP records found that using GP records identified significantly more cases, highlighting flaws in administrative data.
  • The research indicated that administrative data missed many patients and overestimated compliance with diagnostic tests, emphasizing the need for more comprehensive data evaluation to accurately assess healthcare quality.
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Embarrassingly parallel problems are characterised by a very small amount of information to be exchanged among the parts they are split in, during their parallel execution. As a consequence they do not require sophisticated, low-latency, high-bandwidth interconnection networks but can be efficiently computed in parallel by exploiting commodity hardware. Basically, this means cheap clusters, networks of workstations and desktops, and Computational Clouds.

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