Roberto D'Amico
Biographic Data
| ID | 5536642 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberto D'Amico |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberto |
| FAMILY NAME | D'Amico |
| SIGNATURE | AMICO R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Italian Cochrane Centre Department of Diagnostic Clinical and Public Health Medicine University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Modena Italy |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Are parents of children hospitalized with severe community‐acquired pneumonia more satisfied with care when physicians allow them to share decisions on the antibiotic route
CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Despite convincing evidence that oral and injected amoxicillin have equal efficacy in children with severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), hospitalized children often receive injected antibiotics. To investigate whether shared decision-making (choosing the antibiotic route) influences parental satisfaction. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: In a one-year questionnaire-based study, we enrolled consecutive children hospit…
Predicting Outcome in the Intensive Care Unit Using Scoring Systems: Is New Better? A Comparison of Saps and Saps II in a Cohort of 1,393 Patients
OBJECTIVES: This study sought to compare the performance of the old and new versions of the Simplified Acute Physiology Score, SAPS and SAPS II, in classifying patients according to the risk of hospital mortality. METHODS: To compare the performance of the two systems, measures of association between the scores and observed mortality were adopted, together with discrimination (area under the Receiver Operating Characteristics curve) and calibrati…
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Predicting Outcome in the Intensive Care Unit Using Scoring Systems: Is New Better? A Comparison of Saps and Saps II in a Cohort of 1,393 Patients
OBJECTIVES: This study sought to compare the performance of the old and new versions of the Simplified Acute Physiology Score, SAPS and SAPS II, in classifying patients according to the risk of hospital mortality. METHODS: To compare the performance of the two systems, measures of association between the scores and observed mortality were adopted, together with discrimination (area under the Receiver Operating Characteristics curve) and calibrati…
Are parents of children hospitalized with severe community‐acquired pneumonia more satisfied with care when physicians allow them to share decisions on the antibiotic route
CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Despite convincing evidence that oral and injected amoxicillin have equal efficacy in children with severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), hospitalized children often receive injected antibiotics. To investigate whether shared decision-making (choosing the antibiotic route) influences parental satisfaction. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: In a one-year questionnaire-based study, we enrolled consecutive children hospit…
Medicine (2 works) · Antibiotic Use and Resistance (1 works) · Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units (1 works) · Family medicine (1 works) · Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy (1 works) · Intensive care medicine (1 works) · Intensive care unit (1 works) · Internal Medicine (1 works)