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Alessandro Liberati

Researcher at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Publications -  145
Citations -  200037

Alessandro Liberati is an academic researcher from University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Breast cancer. The author has an hindex of 46, co-authored 144 publications receiving 167184 citations. Previous affiliations of Alessandro Liberati include Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research & Cochrane Collaboration.

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Journal of clinical effectiveness

Alessandro Liberati
- 10 Apr 1999 - 
TL;DR: The current enthusiasm for evidence based practice should be regarded with scepticism if it is divorced from appropriate efforts to change the cultural and social basis on which health care is currently practised.
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The multi‐centre assessment of quality of life: the Interdisciplinary Group for Cancer Care Evaluation (GIVIO) experience in Italy

Paola Mosconi, +6 more
- 15 Mar 1998 - 
TL;DR: In both trials concerning the quality of life assessment in a sample of breast and colon cancer patients the strategy of follow-up mailing was adopted, which proved to be an effective way to increase the response rate by nearly 50 per cent at each time point.
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Appropriateness of hospital use Report from an Italian study

Giovanni Apolone, +8 more
- 01 Mar 1997 - 
TL;DR: A substantial proportion of hospital use was found to be medically unnecessary and, for the most part, due to hospital functioning or the behaviour of the doctors.
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Developing Clinical Recommendations for Breast, Colorectal, and Lung Cancer Adjuvant Treatments Using the GRADE System: A Study From the Programma Ricerca e Innovazione Emilia Romagna Oncology Research Group

Rossana De Palma, +10 more
- 01 Mar 2008 - 
TL;DR: It proved very useful to combine methodologic rigor with the interdisciplinary participation that is important in the definition of evidence based clinical policies.
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Quality of breast-cancer care in italian general hospitals

Alessandro Liberati, +6 more
- 31 Jul 1982 - 
TL;DR: Although there was broad agreement about recommended treatment protocols, staging by standard methods was recorded in only 44% of patients, assessment and reporting of side-effects was considered in only 49% of all treated patients, follow-up data were available for only 54% of living patients, and the dropout rate from chemotherapy protocols was 35%.