Mariachiara Savino

• Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Objective: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has evolved into a global pandemic, affecting a wide range of medical and surgical specialties. During COVID-19, we assisted in the reallocation of medical resources and services, as well as social distancing measures, and many patients with chronic diseases and comorbidities may have experienced diff...

Increased values of the FIB-4 index appear to be associated with poor clinical outcomes in COVID-19 patients. This study aimed to develop and validate predictive mortality models, using data upon admission of hospitalized patients in four COVID-19 waves between March 2020 and January 2022. A single-center cohort study was performed on consecutive a...

In recent years, dashboard utilization in healthcare organizations has emerged as a useful tool to monitor and improve the quality of care. In this work, we present a dashboard specifically designed to support the daily clinical activities of the Continuity of Care Centre (CCA) in Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome. CCA tea...

Given the challenge that healthcare related data are being obtained from various sources and in divergent formats there is an emerging need for providing improved and automated techniques and technologies that perform qualification and standardization of these data. The approach presented in this paper introduces a novel mechanism for the cleaning,...

In the era of evidence-based medicine, several clinical guidelines were developed, supporting cancer management from diagnosis to treatment and aiming to optimize patient care and hospital resources. Nevertheless, individual patient characteristics and organizational factors may lead to deviations from these standard recommendations during clinical...

Background Anal cancer is a rare cancer with rising incidence. Despite the relatively good outcomes conferred by state-of-the-art chemoradiotherapy, further improving disease control and reducing toxicity has proven challenging. Developing and validating prognostic models using routinely collected data may provide new insights for treatment develop...