BACKGROUND COPD is a civilization disease. It affects up to 8%-10% of population >30 years of age. Coexistence of depression occurs in 20%-40% of patients with COPD. Depression and anxiety reduce compliance and worsen prognosis. OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to determine the degree of illness acceptance among patients with COPD, to examine the relation between disease acceptance and p...

BACKGROUND In a previous study, we reported on a successful clinical decision support (CDS) intervention designed to improve electronic problem list accuracy, but did not study variability of provider response to the intervention or provider attitudes towards it. The alert system accurately predicted missing problem list items based on health data captured in a patient's electronic medical reco...

Educational programs in Medical Informatics and Telemedicine offered at the Politecnico di Milano are described. At present they refers to the (5-years) Laurea Degree, the (3-years) Diploma Universitario Degree, the post-Laurea (3-years) Doctoral Degree, the (1-year) postLaurea Master’s Degree and a Continuing Education program. The general aim of the educational efforts is that to enable the s...

The purpose of this qualitative study was to gain understanding of the lived experience of senior stroke survivors who used prescribed wheelchairs in their homes and communities. The study involved semistructured, in-depth interviews that were conducted with 10 participants, ages 70 to 80 years old, who had used a wheelchair for a mean of 5.6 years. A constant comparative inductive method of an...

Randomising networks using a naive ‘accept-all’ edge-swap algorithm is generally biased. Building on recent results for nondirected graphs, we construct an ergodic detailed balance Markov chain with non-trivial acceptance probabilities for directed graphs, which converges to a strictly uniform measure and is based on edge swaps that conserve all inand out-degrees. The acceptance probabilities c...

Various versions of legitimacy theory predict that a duty and obligation to obey legitimate authorities generally trumps people’s personal moral and religious values. However, most research has assumed rather than measured the degree to which people have a moral or religious stake in the situations studied. This study tested compliance with and reactions to legitimate authorities in the context...