A5060999600- Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Social Capital and Networks
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Distributed systems and fault tolerance
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Breast Implant and Reconstruction
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Complex Network Analysis Techniques
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Digital Imaging in Medicine
- Economic Policies and Impacts
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention
- Healthcare Systems and Technology
- Machine Learning in Healthcare
- Social Media in Health Education
- School Choice and Performance
- Diabetes Management and Education
Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia
2024-2025
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
2022-2024
IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca
2020
The bulk of causal inference studies rules out the presence interference between units. However, in many real-world settings units are interconnected by social, physical or virtual ties and effect a treatment can spill from one unit to other connected individuals network. In these settings, should be taken into account avoid biased estimates effect, but it also leveraged save resources provide intervention lower percentage population where is more effective over susceptible individuals....
Abstract The prevalence of longstanding chronic diseases has increased worldwide, along with the average age population. As a result, an increasing number people is affected by two or more conditions simultaneously, and healthcare systems are facing challenge treating multimorbid patients effectively. Current therapeutic strategies suited to manage each condition separately, without considering whole clinical patient. This approach may lead suboptimal outcomes system inefficiencies (e.g....
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> The integration of mobile health (mHealth) tools—technological devices that support healthcare services—into the routines workers (HWs) holds potential to enhance delivery. In particular, mHealth tools for patient data monitoring allow HWs quickly access information and detect early warning signs issues. However, while interest in telemedicine has rapidly grown recent years, limited research explored HWs' attitudes toward these or their feature preferences....
Importance Hemorrhagic shock is a common cause of preventable death after injury. Vasopressor administration for patients with blunt trauma and hemorrhagic often discouraged. Objective To evaluate the association early norepinephrine 24-hour mortality among shock. Design, Setting, Participants This retrospective, multicenter, observational cohort study used data from 3 registries in US France on all consecutive January 1, 2013, to December 31, 2018. Patients were alive admission shock,...
Healthcare workers (HCWs) caring for COVID-19 infected patients are exposed to stressful and traumatic events with potential severe sustained adverse mental physical health consequences. Our aim was assess the magnitude of outcomes HCWs due prolonged use personal protective equipment (PPE) treating patients.This cross-sectional study assessed symptoms stress, anxiety, insomnia, psychological resilience using Stress Anxiety Viral Epidemics (SAVE) scale, Insomnia Severity Index (ISI),...
The bulk of causal inference studies rules out the presence interference between units. However, in many real-world settings units are interconnected by social, physical or virtual ties and effect a treatment can spill from one unit to other connected individuals network. In these settings, should be taken into account avoid biased estimates effect, but it also leveraged save resources provide intervention lower percentage population where is more effective over susceptible individuals....
SummaryThrough its national health system, Italy provides legal and free abortion through the third month for any reason sixth maternal or fetal problems, but one of public goals specified in Italian legislation is to minimize use. One barrier achieving this goal inconsistent access prescription contraception. Six out 20 regions offer contraception programs paid by system. Tuscany was most recent region introduce such a program, November 2018. The authors studied impact program using...
Abstract Background Type-2 diabetes (T2D) and hypertension (HTN) are two of the most prevalent non-communicable diseases (NCDs): they both cause a relevant number premature deaths worldwide heavily impact national health systems. This study illustrates HTN T2D in four European countries (Albania, Bulgaria, Greece Spain) compares their policies towards monitoring management prevention NCDs as whole. analysis is conducted throughout DigiCare4You Project (H2020)—which implements an innovative...
Abstract Worldwide, an estimated 71.1 million people are chronically infected with the Hepatitis C virus (HCV). The advent of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) has made possible definition elimination targets by 2030. This study aimed to evaluate effectiveness a population-level health intervention expand access HCV treatment in Tuscany Region, Italy. We used individual-level administrative data from region, collected between January 2015 and December 2022. Data include monthly observations on...
Policy evaluation studies, which intend to assess the effect of an intervention, face some statistical challenges: in real-world settings treatments are not randomly assigned and analysis might be further complicated by presence interference between units. Researchers have started develop novel methods that allow manage spillover mechanisms observational studies; recent works focus primarily on binary treatments. However, many policy studies deal with more complex interventions. For...
The bulk of causal inference studies rule out the presence interference between units. However, in many real-world scenarios, units are interconnected by social, physical, or virtual ties, and effect treatment can spill from one unit to other connected individuals network. In this paper, we develop a machine learning method that uses tree-based algorithms Horvitz-Thompson estimator assess heterogeneity spillover effects with respect individual, neighborhood, network characteristics context...
Background: Healthcare workers (HCWs) caring for COVID-19 inflicted patients are exposed to stressful and traumatic events with potential severe sustained adverse mental physical health consequences. Our aim was assess the magnitude of outcomes due prolonged use personal protective equipment (PPE) among HCWs treating patients. Methods: This cross-sectional study assessed degree symptoms stress, anxiety, insomnia, psychological resilience using Stress Anxiety Viral Epidemics (SAVE) scale,...
Policy evaluation studies, which assess the effect of an intervention, face statistical challenges: in real-world settings treatments are not randomly assigned and analysis might be complicated by presence interference among units. Researchers have started to develop methods that allow manage spillovers observational studies; recent works focus primarily on binary treatments. However, many studies deal with more complex interventions. For instance, political science, evaluating impact...
Abstract The Regional Health Authority of Tuscany, ITALY, launched in November 2018 a public program providing all contraceptive methods free charge to young residing women after medical evaluation at family counselling centres. We aimed explore the effect regional on five outcomes - abortions, contraception provision, access centres, conception, and outpatient service utilization for six sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). These were retrospectively computed from January 2016 December...
In randomized experiments, interactions between units might generate a treatment diffusion process. This is common when the of interest an actual object or product that can be shared among peers (e.g., flyers, booklets, videos). For instance, if intervention information campaign realized through distribution video to targeted individuals, some these treated individuals share they received with their friends. Such phenomenon usually unobserved, causing misallocation in two arms: initially...