Integrating COPD care in Italy

Integrating COPD care in Italy

Doctors are not short of advice about how to manage their patients. In the case of COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) there are a wealth of guidelines, strategies and position papers synthesising an increasing body of data from observational studies and clinical trials into schemes that should help the doctor care for their COPD patients more effectively. In recent years particular at...

COPD in Primary Care

‘COPD in Primary Care’ is a compilation of essential knowledge on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as a health condition and its treatment within the primary care setting in the UK. COPD is a chronic condition that causes progressive obstruction of the airflows increasing continuously shortness of breath and is, by definition, irreversible. Anita Sharma, an enthusiastic, practicing general...

Integrating evaluative research and community-based mental health care in Verona, Italy.

Integrating oncology and palliative home care in Italy: the experience of the "L'Aquila per la Vita" Home Care Unit.

AIM To evaluate the efficacy of a home care program, closely integrated with a medical oncology department. PATIENTS AND METHODS The charts, prospectively recorded, of all the patients treated at home by the "L'Aquila per la Vita" Home Care Unit from August 2006 to December 2011, were reviewed. The number of patients, home accesses, length of the home care, hospital admission, emergency calls...

To What Extent Is Long-term Care Representative of Elderly Care? A Case Study of Elderly Care Financing in Lombardy, Italy

The ageing of European population has been rapidly increasing during the last decades, and the problem of elderly care financing has become an issue for policy-makers. Long-term care (LTC) financing is considered a suitable proxy of the resources committed to elderly care by each government, but the preciseness of this approximation depends on the extent to which LTC is representative of elderl...