Costa, Cinzia Nardi Cesarini, Elena Eusebi, Paolo Franchini, David Casucci, Paola De Giorgi, Marcello Calvello, Carmen Romoli, Michele Parnetti, Lucilla Calabresi, Paolo
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Frontiers in Neurology
Introduction: Post-stroke epilepsy (PSE) requires long-term treatment with antiseizure medications (ASMs). However, epidemiology of PSE and long-term compliance with ASM in this population are still unclear. Here we report, through population-level healthcare administrative data, incidence, risk factors, ASM choice, and ASM switch over long-term fo...
Yousif, Alia Dault, Roxanne Courteau, Mireille Blais, Lucie Cloutier, Anne-Marie Lacasse, Anaïs Vanasse, Alain
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The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma
Objectives To review the available evidence supporting the validity of algorithms to identify asthma patients in healthcare administrative databases.Methods A systematic literature search was conducted on multiple databases from inception to March 2020 to identify studies that reported the validity of case-finding asthma algorithms applied to healt...
Castro-Villarreal, Santiago Beltran-Ostos, Adriana Valencia, Carlos F
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Value in health regional issues
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic, autoimmune disease that may cause physical and functional disability. The objective of this study is to measure prevalence and estimate incremental cost of SLE treatment using information from administrative databases in Colombia. We use data from the patients on the Colombian contributive health sys...
Roux, Christian Rozes, Antoine Reizine, Daniel Hajage, David Daniel, Christel Maire, Aurélien Bréant, Stéphane Taright, Namik Gordon, Ronen Fechtenbaum, Jacques
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Rheumatology (Oxford, England)
Osteoporosis is underdiagnosed and undertreated, although severe complications of osteoporotic fractures, including vertebral fractures, are well known. This study sought to assess the feasibility and results of an opportunistic screening of vertebral fractures and osteoporosis in a large database of lumbar or abdominal CT scans. Data were analyzed...
Roark, Christopher Wilson, Melissa P Kubes, Sheila Mayer, David Wiley, Laura K
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Learning health systems
The 10th revision of International Classification of Disease, Clinical Modification (ICD10-CM) increased the number of codes to identify non-traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage from 1 to 22. ICD10-CM codes are able to specify the location of aneurysms causing subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH); however, it is not clear how frequently or accurately these ...
Delon, François Mayet, Aurélie Thellier, Marc Kendjo, Eric Michel, Rémy Ollivier, Lénaïck Chatellier, Gilles Desjeux, Guillaume
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Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Epidemiological surveillance of malaria in France is based on a hospital laboratory sentinel surveillance network. There is no comprehensive population surveillance. The objective of this study was to assess the ability of the French National Health Insurance Information System to support nationwide malaria surveillance in continental France. A cas...
Piccinni, Carlo Cevoli, Sabina Ronconi, Giulia Dondi, Letizia Calabria, Silvia Pedrini, Antonella Maggioni, Aldo P Esposito, Immacolata Addesi, Alice Favoni, Valentina
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Expert review of clinical pharmacology
Objective: This study aimed at estimating the treated cluster headache (CH) prevalence and describing prescription patterns and direct costs paid by the Italian National-Health-System.Methods: Through the ReS database (healthcare administrative data collection of a large sample of the Italian population), adults in treatment for CH (acute therapy w...
Colais, Paola Cascini, Silvia Balducci, Maria Agabiti, Nera Davoli, Marina Fusco, Danilo Calandrini, Enrico Bargagli, Anna Maria
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European Journal of Neurology
During the COVID‐19 outbreak patients with multiple sclerosis experienced a substantial decrease in adherence to disease‐modifying therapies and a remarkable reduction in the number of visits to ambulatory care practices and provision of healthcare services at home. Important year‐to‐year (2019 vs. 2020) variations were observed in May and June 202...
Gigli, Anna Francisci, Silvia Capodaglio, Giulia Pierannunzio, Daniela Mallone, Sandra Tavilla, Andrea Lopez, Tania Zorzi, Manuel Stracci, Fabrizio Busco, Susanna
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Costs of cancer care are increasing worldwide, and sustainability of cancer burden is critical. In this study, the economic impact of rectal cancer on the Italian healthcare system, measured as public healthcare expenditure related to investigation and treatment of rectal cancer patients is estimated. A cross-sectional cohort of 9358 rectal cancer ...
Lee, Sangmin O'Sullivan, Dylan E Brenner, Darren R Metcalfe, Amy
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The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians
Approximately 3.5% of deliveries in Canada result in potentially preventable neonatal readmission, often times due to preventable morbidities. With complexities in hospital discharge planning, health care providers may benefit in identifying infants at risk of readmission for additional monitoring. To develop and validate models for predicting 7-da...
