Costs of diabetes: a methodological analysis of the literature (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To review studies on the costs of diabetes and its complications through a scheme designed specifically for assessing the quality of cost-of-illness (COI) studies. DESIGN AND SETTING: The m
Cost analysis of dialysis modalities in Italy (Publications)
This study analyses management and costs of dialysis in the Italian National Health Service (NHS). Information on efficacy and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) based on the existing literature a
The cost of urinary incontinence in Italian women: a cross-sectional study (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To offer cost estimates of urinary incontinence (UI) in the general population based on prospectively collected data. DESIGN: We analyzed individual costs in a sample of women with UI who w
Governing decentralization in health care under tough budget constraint: what can we learn from the Italian experience? (Publications)
In many European countries, since the World War II, there has been a trend towards decentralization of health policy to lower levels of governments, while more recently there have been re-centralizati
