scholarly journals Corrigendum: An Integrated Management Model of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: The Experience of the Local Health Unit Tuscany North-West

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There was an error in the Figure 5 at page 11 in this Supplement by Casolo et al. [Farmeconomia. Health economics and therapeutic pathways 2019; 20(Suppl 1): 3-16; https://doi.org/10.7175/fe.v20i1S.1454]. The online version has been corrected on April 21, 2020.

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There was an error in the description of GLORIA-AF registry program at page 10 in this Supplement by Casolo et al. [Farmeconomia. Health economics and therapeutic pathways 2019; 20(Suppl 1): 3-16; https://doi.org/10.7175/fe.v20i1S.1454]. The online version has been corrected on February 12, 2020.


Author(s):  
Giancarlo Casolo ◽  
Giuseppe Cavirani ◽  
Alessandro Del Carlo ◽  
Sergio Iannazzo ◽  
Massimo Pardini ◽  
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Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most prevalent form of alteration in cardiac rhythm and is associated with a high economic burden resulting from both clinical consequences and impact on patients’ quality of life. Goals of treatment include symptom control and, in the high-risk patients, the prevention of thromboembolic complications. The advent of novel oral anticoagulant agents (NOACs) has improved the management of patients with non-valvular AF (NVAF) by overcoming limitations associated with traditional oral anticoagulation drugs. NOACs are associated with a lower risk of stroke, systemic embolism, and mortality compared to vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) and with a lower risk of fatal, major, and intracranial bleeding. This supplement aims at sharing the virtuous management model of AF patients in the Local Health Unit Tuscany North-West and promoting the importance of a multidisciplinary management, which involves cardiologists and general practitioners (GPs), not only in terms of clinical outcomes, but also of therapeutic appropriateness and economic sustainability.


Author(s):  
Gianluca Miglio ◽  
Lara Basso ◽  
Lucrezia G. Armando ◽  
Sara Traina ◽  
Elisa Benetti ◽  
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In a Drug Prescription Network (DPN), each drug is represented as a node and two drugs co-prescribed to the same patient are represented as an edge linking the nodes. The use of DPNs is a novel approach that has been proposed as a means to study the complexity of drug prescription. The aim of this study is to demonstrate the analytical power of the DPN-based approach when it is applied to the analysis of administrative data. Drug prescription data that were collected at a local health unit (ASL TO4, Regione Piemonte, Italy), over a 12-month period (July 2018–June 2019), were used to create several DPNs that correspond to the five levels of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical classification system. A total of 5,431,335 drugs prescribed to 361,574 patients (age 0–100 years; 54.7% females) were analysed. As indicated by our results, the DPNs were dense networks, with giant components that contain all nodes. The disassortative mixing of node degrees was observed, which implies that non-random connectivity exists in the networks. Network-based methods have proven to be a flexible and efficient approach to the analysis of administrative data on drug prescription.


2007 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Deambrosis ◽  
Cristina Saramin ◽  
Gianni Terrazzani ◽  
Luca Scaldaferri ◽  
Patrizia Debetto ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Terrosu ◽  
Antonio Fadda ◽  
Giorgio Frongia ◽  
Antonietta Sanna ◽  
Rita Melillo

<em>Listeria</em> (<em>L.</em>) <em>monocytogenes</em> is frequently isolated from food production environment and often persists in dairy plants despite vigorous sanitation regimes. In recent years several alert notifications were sent to <em>Rapid Alert System for Food Products</em> system as a consequence of <em>Listeria monocytogenes</em> contamination of ricotta cheese. After the alert of 2012, competent authority (Local Health Unit of Sassari Province) organised an environmental monitoring plan with the partnership of the Institute for Experimental Veterinary Medicine of Sardinia to verify analysis of dairy plants own-check according to Regulation (EC) N° 2073/05 and further modifications. In 2014 n. 665 processing areas samples of n. 50 dairy plants of Sassari Province were examined. UNI EN ISO 11290-1:2005 for detection of <em>L. monocytogenes</em> was used. Non-compliance in n. 5 diary plants are observed (n. 8 positive samples). Post-non-compliance environmental sanitisation was efficient and own-check plans included appropriate corrective actions.


2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ginevra Paolucci ◽  
Daniela Cagnasso ◽  
Francesco Cassani ◽  
Daniele Pattono

In the last decade, the European Union has reinforced the concept of animal welfare throughout the food chain, from breeding to slaughtering. Studies and assessments of economic nature led to the adoption of Regulation EC 1099/2009 and at the end of 2014 this regulation will be applied to all the members involved in the food chain. For this reason several local health units organized different initiatives. The local health unit of Turin no. 4 (ASLTO4) has developed a project aimed to train food business operators (FBO) to fulfill all the criteria developed in this Regulation. This initiative was divided into four steps: i) communication to the companies about the criteria of the new regulation; ii) a training course for official veterinarians; iii) slaughterhouse audits in order to get information about animal welfare; iv) and a training course for the personnel involved in slaughterhouses. The purpose of this paper was to report the results of the audits in order to identify critical points of structural, instrumental and documentary facilities. Then, the results can be compared with similar studies in order to develop common strategies and intervention areas.


2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. S945-S946
Author(s):  
R. Natal ◽  
J. Costa ◽  
M. Oliveira ◽  
A. Amaral ◽  
F. Cabral ◽  
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Author(s):  
Annachiara Bellin ◽  
Giulia Franchin ◽  
Jenny Bolcato ◽  
Alessandra Bettiol ◽  
Roberta Pirolo ◽  
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