Real world evidence: patients with alopecia areata in Italy.

Background: This real-world analysis aimed at characterizing patients hospitalized for alopecia areata (AA) in Italy, focusing on comorbidities, treatment patterns and the economic burden for disease management.

Methods: Administrative databases of healthcare entities covering 8.9 million residents were retrospectively browsed to include patients of all ages with hospitalization discharge diagnosis for AA from 2010 to 2020.

Real-World Treatment Patterns and Healthcare Resource Use for Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's Disease in Italy.

Introduction: Real-world data are used to inform decision-makers and optimise therapeutic management for patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD). We analysed data on the epidemiology (by using proxies of prevalence and incidence), patient characteristics, treatment patterns and associated healthcare direct costs for the management of patients with UC and patients with CD in Italy.

Methods: This retrospective observational study used administrative databases from eight Local Health Units geographically distributed across Italy.

Clinical and economic burden of respiratory syncytial virus in children aged 0-5 years in Italy.

Background: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is among the leading causes of hospitalization due to lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) in children younger than 5 years worldwide and the second cause of infant death after malaria. RSV infection occurs in almost all the infants before the second year of life with variable clinical severity, often requiring medical assistance. This analysis investigated patients aged 0-5 years with RSV infection focusing on epidemiology, clinical features, and economic burden of RSV-associated hospitalizations in a setting of Italian real clinical practice.