Hospital care services for digestive diseases in Italy: The first quantitative assessment

Buscarini, Elisabetta; Carle, Flavia; Tamburini, Cristina; Balzano, A.; Milazzo, Giuseppe; Soncini, Marco; Milan, Giovanni; Spolaore, Paolo

doi:10.1016/j.dld.2014.02.022

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“…A total of 61 GE services replied to the survey (representing approximately 35% of all services in Italy) [6] , with complete datasets available from 49. The distribution of the replies was: 32 from the North (65.3%), 6 from the Center (12.2%), and 11 from the South (22.4%).…”

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“…The GE workforce was already inadequate to meet the needs of specialized health care in 2014 [6] . Consequently, with the COVID-19 pandemic, it is imperative that an appropriate, efficient and stable allocation of resources is carried out, which is truly commensurate with healthcare needs.…”

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“…First of all, our study does not cover the entire Italian healthcare system. However, considering that according to Ministry data in 2014 there were 174 gastroenterology services in Italy [6] , our survey captured data from approximately one third of them. We thus believe that our sample provides a significant nationwide representation of the diagnostic activities of digestive cancers during the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

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Changes in digestive cancer diagnosis during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Italy: A nationwide survey

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Monica³

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Digestive and Liver Disease

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Background:The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has had a huge impact on healthcare systems, resulting in many routine diagnostic procedures either being halted or postponed. Aims: To evaluate whether the diagnoses of colorectal, gastric and pancreatic cancers have been impacted by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Italy. Methods: A survey designed to collect the number of histologically-proven diagnoses of the three cancers in gastroenterology services across Italy from January 1 to October 31 in 2017-2020. Non-parametric ANOVA for repeated measurements was applied to compare distributions by years and macro-areas. Results: Compared to 2019, in 2020 gastric cancer diagnoses decreased by 15.9%, CRC by 11.9% and pancreatic by 9.9%. CRC distributions showed significant differences between all years, stomach cancer be-

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“…Electronic databases are valuable data sources for epidemiological studies [7][8][9][10][11], since they can be used for a variety of purposes such as to help estimate the incidence and prevalence of chronic and acute conditions, conduct pharmaco-epidemiological investigations, identify health determinants, assess healthcare service performance [12][13][14][15][16][17], and perform health technology assessments [18,19].…”

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Availability of Real-World Data in Italy: A Tool to Navigate Regional Healthcare Utilization Databases

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Villani

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The purpose of the study was to map and describe the healthcare utilization databases (HUDs) available in Italy’s 19 regions and two autonomous provinces and develop a tool to navigate through them. A census of the HUDs covering the population of a single region/province and recording local-level data was conducted between January 2014 and October 2016. The characteristics of each HUD regarding the start year, data type and completeness, data management system (DMS), data protection procedures, and data quality control adopted were collected through interviews with the database managers using a standard questionnaire or directly from the website of the regional body managing them. Overall, 352 HUDs met the study criteria. The DMSs, anonymization procedures of personal identification data, and frequency of data quality control were fairly homogeneous within regions, whereas the number of HUDs, data availability, type of identification code, and anonymization procedures were considerably heterogeneous across regions. The study provides an updated inventory of the available regional HUDs in Italy and highlights the need for greater homogeneity across regions to improve comparability of health data from secondary sources. It could represent a reference model for other countries to provide information on the available HUDs and their features, enhancing epidemiological studies across countries.

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“…The carbon cost of inappropriate EGD and CLS in Italy is 4,133 CO 2 tons (MCC 0.93) per year, ranging from 3,527 to 4,749 and equivalent to 1,760,446 Liters of gasoline burnt. Applying the same data to the European population, the estimated carbon footprint of inappropriate digestive endoscopy in Europe is 30,804 tons 1 2 3 4 5 .…”

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The carbon cost of inappropriate endoscopy

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Hospital care services for digestive diseases in Italy: The first quantitative assessment

Cited by 7 publications

References 2 publications

Changes in digestive cancer diagnosis during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Italy: A nationwide survey

Changes in digestive cancer diagnosis during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Italy: A nationwide survey

Availability of Real-World Data in Italy: A Tool to Navigate Regional Healthcare Utilization Databases

The carbon cost of inappropriate endoscopy

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