Background: A substantial amount of aggressive life-prolonging treatments in the final
stages of life has been reported for people with progressive life-shortening conditions …

Background Despite evidence-based guidelines, high-quality diabetes care is not always
achieved. Identifying factors associated with the quality of management in primary care may …

Italy was the first European country to be dramatically hit by the COVID-19 pandemic,
recording the highest official number of victims in the world up to Easter 2020. Of course, this …

Several member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
are reforming their primary care systems to improve continuity and co-ordination of care. In …

Conclusion: Using our conceptual framework we found several areas that would benefit from
research to identify optimal standards for production of empirical knowledge from existing …

Background Primary health care is essential for an appropriate management of heart failure
(HF), a disease which is a major clinical and public health issue and a leading cause of …

Objective To identify the advantages and disadvantages that group practices have on
patients, physicians and healthcare systems. Study design A scoping review was performed …

Background Italy has a population of 60 million and a universal coverage single-payer
healthcare system, which mandates collection of healthcare administrative data in a uniform …

Purpose The aim of this study was to describe the characteristics of patients admitted to an
out-of-hours (OOH) service and to analyze the related outputs. Setting A retrospective …

Background: In 2010, Tuscany (Italy) implemented the Chronic Care Model (CCM), to
improve general practitioner (GP) management of chronic diseases. Aim: assessing how the …