A5044282024- Frailty in Older Adults
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
- Nutrition and Health in Aging
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
- Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Medication Adherence and Compliance
- Body Composition Measurement Techniques
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reactions
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Pharmaceutical studies and practices
- Hip and Femur Fractures
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Down syndrome and intellectual disability research
- Dysphagia Assessment and Management
- Muscle metabolism and nutrition
- Pain Management and Opioid Use
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
2016-2025
Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico
2018-2025
Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic
2014-2025
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
2019-2024
Eskişehir City Hospital
2024
Center for Global Health
2023-2024
Institute of Studies for the Integration of Systems
2024
Anadolu University
2024
The Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery
2021
Showa University
2021
This Viewpoint from physicians with the Italian National Institute of Health confirms a higher case-fatality rate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Italy compared China and explains possible reasons, including age, cause death definitions, testing strategy.
Background and aims: sarcopenia has been indicated as a reliable marker of frailty poor prognosis among the oldest individuals. We evaluated impact on risk all-cause death in population frail older persons living community. Methods: we analysed data from Aging Longevity Study, prospective cohort study that collected all subjects aged 80 years residing Sirente geographic area (n = 364). The present analysis was conducted those who were between 85 age at time baseline assessment 197). main...
OBJECTIVES: To determine the prevalence of adverse drug reaction (ADR)‐related hospital admissions in an older population, to describe most common clinical manifestations and drugs frequently responsible for ADR‐related admissions, identify independent factors predictive these ADRs. DESIGN: Multicenter pharmacoepidemiology survey conducted between 1988 1997. SETTING: Eighty‐one academic hospitals throughout Italy. PARTICIPANTS: Twenty‐eight thousand four hundred eleven patients consecutively...
Background. Optimal care for frail elderly patients depends on comprehensive assessment. This is especially true in the complex setting of interdisciplinary home programs. To facilitate assessment, as well to generate a useful, policy-relevant patient database, standardized, multidimensional, and validated instruments are very helpful. Objectives. The aim present study was demonstrate that Minimum Data Set assessment instrument Home Care (MDS-HC) can be used detect functional cognitive...
Abstract Purpose STOPP/START is a physiological systems-based explicit set of criteria that attempts to define the clinically important prescribing problems relating potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs–STOPP criteria) and potential omissions (PPOs–START criteria). The previous two versions were published in 2008 2015. present study describes revised updated third version criteria. Methods A detailed system-by-system review literature from April 2014 March 2022 was undertaken with aim...
Although the definition of multimorbidity as “the simultaneous presence two or more chronic diseases” is well established, its operationalization not yet agreed. This study aims to provide a clinically driven comprehensive list conditions be included when measuring multimorbidity. Based on consensus disease, all four-digit level codes from International Classification Diseases, 10th revision (ICD-10) were classified by an international and multidisciplinary team. Chronic ICD-10 subsequently...
Background. Physical performance measures can predict incident disability, but little research has assessed and compared how these progressive rapid-onset (catastrophic) disability. The authors evaluated the ability of upper lower extremity to catastrophic disability in activities daily living (ADL), mobility, function.
Sarcopenia has been indicated as a reliable marker of frailty and poor prognosis among the oldest individuals. At present, there are no data on sarcopenia in nursing home population. We evaluated prevalence its association with functional clinical status population elderly persons aged 70 years older living homes.This study was conducted selecting all participants (n = 122) teaching homes Catholic University Rome who were from August 1, 2010, to September 30, 2010. The European Working Group...
Background.This study assesses prevalence and patients characteristics related to polypharmacy in a sample of nursing home residents.
Background:The aim of the present study was to develop and validate a method identifying elderly patients who are at increased risk for an adverse drug reaction (ADR).Methods: Data from Gruppo Italiano di Farmacoepidemiologia nell'Anziano (Italian Group Pharmacoepidemiology in Elderly) were used ADR score.Variables associated with ADRs identified by stepwise logistic regression analysis compute score.The score then validated sample older adults admitted 4 university hospitals Europe...