Publications by authors named "V Giambanco"
Aim: We evaluated the changes of lipidic and coagulative pattern during menopause and the influence of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on these parameters.
Methods: We considered 158 patients divided into 2 groups: Group I consisted of 127 women in physiological/surgical menopause and Group II of 31 women with childbearing potential. Subsequently, we considered a group III formed of 34 patients from menopausal women (group I) who underwent three months of HRT.
Medication reconciliation for reducing drug-discrepancy adverse events.
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother
September 2006
Background: Medication reconciliation is a technique for identifying discrepancies in drug regimens prescribed in different care settings or at different time points to inform prescribing decisions and prevent medication errors.
Objective: This study examined the effect of pharmacist-conducted medication reconciliation on the occurrence of discrepancy-related adverse drug events (ADEs) associated with drugs ordered at the time of a resident's return from the hospital to the nursing home.
Methods: This was a preintervention/postintervention study conducted in a consecutive sample of residents of a 514-bed, urban, not-for-profit nursing home who were hospitalized in its primary referral hospital, an 1171-bed academic tertiary care hospital, and returned to the nursing home between December 2002 and January 2005.
Objective: To assess risk factors for different type of urinary incontinence-stress, urge or mixed-and overactive bladder without urinary incontinence.
Design: Case-control study.
Setting: Gynaecology clinics.
Objective: To assess the quality of life (QOL) of women with urinary incontinence (UI) or overactive bladder (OB) compared with women without UI.
Methods: A case-control study conducted in Italy on risk factors for UI and OB. Information on QOL were collected using the SF-12 questionnaire, validated for Italian women.