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Behavioral and clinical characteristics of people receiving medical care for HIV infection in an outpatient facility in Sicily, Italy

2016

Paola Di Carlo,1 Giuliana Guadagnino,1 Palmira Immordino,1 Giovanni Mazzola,2 Pietro Colletti,2 Ilenia Alongi,1 Lucia Adamoli,1 Francesco Vitale,1 Alessandra Casuccio1 1Department of Sciences for Health Promotion and Mother-Child Care “G D’Alessandro”, University of Palermo, 2Department of Medicinal Clinics and Emerging Diseases, “Paolo Giaccone” Polyclinic University Hospital, Palermo, Italy Aim: The authors examined a cohort of HIV-positive outpatients at the AIDS Center of Palermo University in Italy in order to identify factors related to the frequency of their visits to the outpatient facility for health care services.Methods: Two hundr…

0301 basic medicinemedicine.medical_specialtyMultivariate analysisSettore MED/17 - Malattie Infettivehard-to-reach groups030106 microbiologyHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV)Medicine (miscellaneous)HIV Outpatient Servicemedicine.disease_causeSettore MED/42 - Igiene Generale E Applicata03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineOutpatient facilityAmbulatory careAcquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)CD4+ T-cell countHealth careMedicine030212 general & internal medicinePharmacology Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (miscellaneous)Access to care; CD4+ T-cell count; Hard-to-reach groups; HIV infection; HIV outpatient service; Resource use; Social Sciences (miscellaneous); Medicine (miscellaneous); Health Policy; Pharmacology Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (miscellaneous)Original Researchaccess to carelcsh:R5-920business.industryHealth PolicyUnivariatemedicine.diseaseHIV infectionresource usePatient Preference and AdherenceEmergency medicineCohortbusinesslcsh:Medicine (General)Hard-to-reach groupSocial Sciences (miscellaneous)
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Does access to care play a role in liver cancer survival? The ten-year (2006–2015) experience from a population-based cancer registry in Southern Ita…

2021

Abstract Background Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most frequent primary invasive cancer of the liver. During the last decade, the epidemiology of HCC has been continuously changing in developed countries, due to more effective primary prevention and to successful treatment of virus-related liver diseases. The study aims to examine survival by level of access to care in patients with HCC, for all patients combined and by age. Methods We included 2018 adult patients (15–99 years) diagnosed with a primary liver tumour, registered in the Palermo Province Cancer Registry during 2006–2015, and followed-up to 30 October 2019. We obtained a proxy measure of access to care by linking each re…

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Prioritization of high-cost new drugs for HCV: making sustainability ethical

2016

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a major health problem worldwide. Chronic HCV infection may in the long run cause cirrhosis, hepatic decompensation and hepatocellular carcinoma, with an ultimate disease burden of at least 350,000 deaths per year worldwide. The new generation of highly effective direct acting antivirals (DAA) to treat HCV infection brings major promises to infected patients in terms of exceedingly high rates of sustained virological response (SVR) but also of tolerability, allowing even the sickest patients to be treated. Even in the face of the excellent safety and efficacy and wide theoretical applicability of these regimens, their introduction is currently facing cos…

Carcinoma HepatocellularHealth PrioritiesLiver NeoplasmsInterferon-alphaHepacivirusHepatitis C ChronicAntiviral AgentsHepatitis CDrug CostsSettore MED/02 - Storia Della MedicinaAccess to care cirrhosis Direct acting antivirals Distributive justice Ethics Hepatitis C Hepatocellular carcinoma PrioritizationSettore MED/43 - Medicina LegaleQuality of LifeAnimalsHumansDrug Therapy Combinationhepatitis C
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