A5082102283- Ethics in medical practice
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- Radiology practices and education
- Radiation Dose and Imaging
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Risk Perception and Management
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
- Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Radioactive contamination and transfer
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Electronic Health Records Systems
- Nuclear Issues and Defense
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Ethics in Clinical Research
National Research Council
2013-2023
Istituto di Fisiologia Clinica
2010-2023
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
2013
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
2000
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among adolescents and young people represent a significant public health problem that generates pressing requirement of effective evidence-based education to promote primary secondary prevention. The objective the study is evaluate how knowledge, information needs, risk perception about HIV STDs can change after targeted interventions for students. A total 436 subjects aged 15–24 attending high school (134 biomedical 96 non-biomedical fields) university...
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic led to the development of various vaccines. BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine was first approved due its efficacy in eliciting a humoral immunity response after second dose. However, decrease antibody concentration observed over time. Therefore, administration third dose scheduled, primarily for frail people and workers essential public activities. aim this study assess level antibodies against spike (S) RBD healthcare before vaccine, according sex, age, time interval between...
Inappropriate ionising medical imaging has been escalating in the last decades. This trend leads to potential damage health and associated bioethical legal issues of patient autonomy.While doctrine underlines importance using informed consent improve autonomy physician-patient communication, some researchers have argued that it often falls short this aim. There are basically two different practices. The first - so-called "event-based model" regards as a passive signature standard unreadable...
The phenomenon of inappropriateness in ionizing imaging and medical interventions is large-scale increasing. This tendency causes noteworthy damages to health patient's autonomy. Moreover, this trend a huge increment expenditures, waiting lists, organizational conflicts, judicial disputes, insurance compensations. actual passive signature on unreadable templates informed consent the Italian hospital context constitutes, by matter facts, central node problem. way manage - "event" model...
From the initial COVID-19 outbreak, Italy was first Western country to be seriously affected by pandemic. Understanding vaccine hesitancy can help efforts achieve broad vaccination coverage. The objectives of this research were determine extent in and understand characteristics those segments population with some hesitancy. Between January February 2021, 41,473 subjects answered second questionnaire delivered phase II web-based EPICOVID19 survey. Among included adult volunteers living Italy,...
Research on risk communication relates basic perception studies to the formulation of policies, currently evolving legislation dealing with hazards, key issues public involvement, and environmental management. Risk is a relatively new field based sociological approach. The discipline comes from (psychological approach), which try investigate how influenced by certain variables in perceiving as "acceptable" or not. involves some aspects analysis methodology, since it results that also...
Research on risk communication relates basic perception studies to the formulation of policies, currently evolving legislation dealing with hazards, key issues public involvement, and environmental management. Risk is a relatively new field based sociological approach. The discipline comes from (psychological approach), which try investigate how influenced by certain variables in perceiving as "acceptable" or not. involves some aspects analysis methodology, since it results that also...
We thank Prof. Vock for his noteworthy and constructive commentary [1]. This gives us the opportunity to briefly provide additional observations elaborate this topic further. agree with that our theoretical approach [2] may not be applied in a non-invasive low-dose medical imaging. Nevertheless, makes innovation we are trying develop even more challenging. all discussing about something similar “paradigm shift”, sense described by Kuhn [3]: (a) presenting results “sufficiently unprecedented...
[ Mediation in health care. Inappropriate use of ionizing tests, informed consent and opportunity Legislative Decree n. 28/2010] tests medicine represents an increasing trend, which causes noteworthy damages to health, as well a huge increment expenditures, waiting lists, organizational conflicts, judicial disputes, insurance compensations. This phenomenon is strictly related the key bioethical legal issue patient’s autonomy, protectable by means correct implementation consent. The current...
Appropriateness in imaging studies is recognized as an important feature National Health Services, especially those nations where per capita health spending has been substantially increased. This view of the projected spectacular rise ionizing tests next years; yet their explosive growth performance challenging to be interpreted it may represent added value when appropriate, and cost inappropriate or overused (Picano, 2009).
[Transformative mediation in the era of patient revolution. A model for management clinical and legal risk Italian health facilities]Nowadays, too many patients do not perceive that their doctors are exclusively dedicated to care them. This is probably because current systems focused on physicians diseases, rather than patients. Such also expensive, fragmented, inefficient often cynical, generating only anger but willingness bring claims from Many scholars, fact, claim "too much medicine"...
Nowadays, patient-centred practice represents the key for quality and successful outcomes in healthcare. At same time, shared decision-making is acknowledged as highlight of care. Informed consent, whenever derives appropriately from a two-way communication between doctor patient, follows negotiation process that leads to appropriate decisions. This article aims show how typical negotiating styles can lead or not effective informed consent conflict mediation processes. To this end, three...