AMERI , Marta

Background. The introduction of Highly active anti-retroviral therapy (Haart) in Hiv-infected individuals has been associated with a lower mortality rate and higher life expectancy. Nevertheless, the advent of Haart has led to an increase in the total care expenditure devoted to patients with Hiv infection, due to a significant rise in...

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Emergency Departments (EDs) are supposed to provide healthcare to patients with acute clinical conditions. Nevertheless almost 80% of total access to EDs is represented by white and green code patients. Looking at triage code classification as a proxy of patients' severity, it clearly emerges that many accesses to EDs are inappropriate because...

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The analysis of the hospital care setting highlights the growing importance of the Emergency Departments within the Italian healthcare system; then, the present work aims to investigate the inappropriateness phenomena in managing these Departments, firstly studying the main characteristics of this occurrence through a statistic analysis in...

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This study investigates the characteristics of frequent users of accident and emergency departments (AEDs) and recommends alternative medical services for such patients. Prominent demographic and clinical risk factors for individuals accessing seven AEDs located in the metropolitan area of Genoa, Italy are identified and analysed. A truncated...

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Health care expenditure devoted to patients with HIV infection has changed considerably during the last decades because of the introduction of Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART). It is estimated that the largest share of total costs in HIV treatment is attributable to HAART and significant differences in per patient cost are...

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Background: In the last twenty years routine T CD4+ lymphocyte (CD4) cell count has proved to be a key factor to determine the stage of HIV infection and start or discontinue of prophylaxis for opportunistic infections. However, several studies recently showed that in stable patients on cART a quarterly CD4 cell count monitoring results in...

OBJECTIVES To understand the relationship between socio-demographic variables, clinical factors, highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) and health related quality of life (QoL) in HIV-infected individuals participants in the IANUA multicenter study. METHODS Data relating to patients with HIV infection admitted to 3 infectious disease...

The aims of this study were to assess the Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) who attend outpatient services in Genoa, Italy, and to evaluate the relationship between HRQoL and clinical factors, primarily: CD4+ cell count, viral load and HIV-Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) coinfection. A cross-sectional study...

HIV treatment is based on combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) which has substantially improved survival, thus resulting in an increase in patient life expectancy as well as in the cost of HIV-related medical care. Therefore, several cost effectiveness studies were implemented worldwide, with one specifically in the Liguria region (Italy), to...