MORA S.

According to the 'Istituto Superiore di Sanita (ISS), hospital infections are the most frequent and serious complication of health care. This constitutes a real health emergency which requires incisive and joint action at all levels of the local and national health organization. Most of the valuable information related to the presence of a...

Psychology tests are tools used to evaluate specific aspects of individual psyche and behavior, in clinical practice and for research purposes. They are validated and standardized both in the administration procedures and interpretation of results. Nowadays, most of these tests are questionnaires administered to patients on paper support. The...

Invasive candidiasis is associated with high morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients, i.e. patients admitted to Intensive Care Units (ICUs) or in surgical wards. There are no clinical signs or specific symptoms and even though early diagnosis risk scores and rapid tests are available, none of such strategies has an equally-optimal...

Clinical and medical knowledge evolve and this causes changes in concepts and terms that describe them. The objective of this work is to formally present an ontology-based standard architecture that will be used in the scenario of neurodegeneration research to maintain terminologies and their relations updated and coherent over the time. The...

The increasing ease of people to move from one place to another and the rapid emergence of multi-centric clinical trials make necessary an extensive multilayer integration of data from different health areas so that it is possible to minimize the need for human intervention. The idea behind this work is to exploit the information...

The dissemination of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria (MDR-GNB) is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in several countries. Machine learning (ML) is a branch of artificial intelligence that consists of conferring on computers the ability to learn from data. In this narrative review, we discuss three existing examples of...