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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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Do different physicians' panels reach similar conclusions? A case study on practice guidelines for limited surgery in breast cancer
A. Penna,Roberto Grilli,Giovanni Filardo,F. Mainini,Paolo Zola,Lorenzo Mantovani,Alessandro Liberati +6 more
TL;DR: An acceptable level of agreement was reached when different panels of experts were asked to produce guidelines using a structured process which includes exposure to the relevant scientific literature and has implications that should be considered when deciding on the level (local versus central) where guidelines are produced.
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Health care research: what is it about?
TL;DR: The example of the North Karelia project is used to illustrate the negative consequences of including under health care research inquiries into the premises of health care--notably studies on the effects of care on health outcome.
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Breast cancer surgery in 30 Italian general hospitals
A. Alexanian,N. Scorpiglione,Giovanni Apolone,Roldano Fossati,Alessandro Liberati,Roberto Grilli,Liberati Mc,Silvia Marsoni,N. Monferroni,Paola Mosconi +9 more
TL;DR: Several factors were related to the lower likelihood of getting a conservative procedure: geographic distribution, age, level of education, quadrant and nodal state, and the implications of the otherwise growing consensus that more radical surgery should be abandoned.
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Publication bias and the editorial process.
TL;DR: I believe that medical journals should take their own steps against publication bias, and have reservations on the usefulness of registries of trials for individual practitioners who are most of the time not well educated on critical appraisal of the medical literature.
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Cooperation in mental health: an Italian project in Nicaragua.
TL;DR: The experience acquired over the last four years in developing a program of cooperation in mental health in Nicaragua is reported, and the concept of 'transfer' underlying the intervention and the general framework of Nicaragua's mental health system is discussed.