Carlo Drago

Università degli studi Niccolò Cusano, telematica Roma, Department of Economics, Faculty Member

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Ph.D. in Statistics, Associate Professor of Economic Statistics at University "Niccolò Cusano," Rome

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Williams College

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University of Allahabad

Armando Marques-Guedes

UNL - New University of Lisbon

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California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo

Kati (Katalin) Prajda

University of Vienna

Johannes Preiser-Kapeller

Austrian Academy of Sciences

José Francisco Pessanha

UERJ - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Rio de Janeiro State University

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Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Adebayo D Agunbiade

Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria

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University of Technology Sydney

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The Density Valued Data Analysis in a Temporal Framework: The Data Model Approach

The costs of treatment resistant depression: evidence from a survey among Italian patients

Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research, Jul 26, 2021

ABSTRACT Introduction Treatment resistant depression (TRD) is a severe form of major depressive d... more ABSTRACT Introduction Treatment resistant depression (TRD) is a severe form of major depressive disorder associated with high symptoms severity, disability, and health resource utilization. Aim The purpose of this study is to estimate the coss of TRD in Italy Methods The study was carried on a sample of Italian patients diagnosed with TRD in 2019. In total, 306 observations were collected. The first step was to estimate the health and social costs of TRD resulting from the survey applying the Italian tariffs, daily wages, and prices. Secondly, we focused on the determinants of out of pocket expenditure (OOPE). A parametric analysis was performed to explore the association between the costs of TRD and a set of co-variates. Results In total, the average healthcare costs were €2,653. A national average of 42 lost working days was estimated resulting in a total cost of €7,140 per patient. Regarding OOPE an average of € 615 per patient was found. Regression results showed how relevant regional gradients are likely to affect the amount of OOPE for TRD. Conclusions the study confirms the important burden of TRD in Italy with specific focus on out of pocket expenditure. High heterogeneity is shown concerning regional settings.

Telemedicine as technoinnovation to tackle COVID-19: A bibliometric analysis

Technovation, Feb 1, 2023

Telemedicine has become fundamental for the challenges posed to healthcare. This set of instrumen... more Telemedicine has become fundamental for the challenges posed to healthcare. This set of instruments turns pivotal for facing one of the most relevant emergencies in human history: the COVID-19 pandemic. The multisectoral crisis led to a vigorously sustained adoption of innovations, including telemedicine technology. Telehealth was proven, in this context, to be a relevant tool to reduce healthcare costs, reduce not-needed hospitalizations, and improve the results in health care. Some barriers such as the costs of technologies, patient privacy and technical literacy have slowed down telemedicine adoption. Amidst the COVID-19 era, telemedicine calls for a managerial duty to change healthcare's organizational models. The present work aims to explore the growing literature to illuminate the relationships between telemedicine, innovations and healthcare in the COVID-19 framework. A bibliometric analysis of the existing literature based on 285 published works in 2019–2020 is put forward with the aim to detect the relevant literature, themes and approaches on telemedicine and COVID-19. Making use of community detection on the co-occurrence keywords network, we identify the “semantic cores” in the literature representing the relevant results on critical themes. The sorting implications are important for researchers and policymakers by mapping the existing literature and results in evidence-based analysis. We provide the key communities as the “semantic core” of the publications and results for the considered period. This allows for future research to be oriented towards perduring health policies that could lead to the adoption of telemedicine technologies in a post-pandemic scenario.

Policy, regulation effectiveness, and sustainability in the energy sector: A worldwide interval-based composite indicator

Energy Policy, Aug 1, 2022

New frontiers in e-health. Policies and the Doctor@Home case study

PubMed, Apr 1, 2022

Introduction: In recent years, and even more following the need for social distancing generated b... more Introduction: In recent years, and even more following the need for social distancing generated by the global COVID-19 pandemic, e-health has become an increasingly widespread reality in clinical practice, especially for those clinicians operating in the front-line, like nurses. Its growing importance has been followed by increasing attention both by the literature as well as in the generation of specific rules aimed at regulating the phenomenon. Methods: A regulatory review of the literature aims to outline the current regulatory framework relating to telemedicine. Telemedicine, especially in a pandemic context, calls for regulation that runs parallel to the rapid evolution of the phenomenon itself. The paper traces the European, Italian, and Regional legislation, focusing then on a practical experience of telemedicine, called Doctor @ Home, active at the IRCCS National Cancer Center in Aviano (Italy). Discussion: First, the need for regulatory harmonization emerges. Secondly, the potential of co-production and co-learning processes for healthcare professionals and patients arises to adapt to the outpatient needs of patients in a post-pandemic "new normal," exploiting the new technological tools made available by the National Health Service.

Parità di Genere nel CdA e Qualità dell’Informazione di Bilancio: un’Analisi Statistica Multivariata

Setting Research Priorities in the Field of Emergency Management: Which Piece of Information Are You Willing to Pay More?

Social Science Research Network, 2018

In this paper we show how EVPPI analysis can be a good tool to formalize the decision making proc... more In this paper we show how EVPPI analysis can be a good tool to formalize the decision making process leading the design and implementation of interventions aimed at preventing and controlling the consequences of extraordinary events. More concretely we the economics of emergency as the approach aimed at defining how to identify which interventions would be more efficient to be implemented in order to minimize the risk of incurring in unexpected circumstances/events. Our rationale is that when dealing with complex decisions potentially leading to extraordinary circumstances, the first step for a decision makers should be to minimize the sources of uncertainty by mean of further research. This would inevitably entail investments and reallocation of resources. Our approach aims to define how to decide where is more efficient to intervene. Our paper provides a theoretical framework of the EVPPI and an application based on a hypothetical natural disaster. In the last section we discuss the limits of our approach and implications for further research.

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