The CRACK programme: a scientific alliance for bridging healthcare research and public health policies in Italy
<p>Healthcare utilisation databases, and other secondary data sources, have been used with growing frequency to assess health outcomes and healthcare interventions worldwide. Their increased popularity as a research tool is due to their timely availability, the large patient populations covere...
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| author | Giovanni Corrao Giancarlo Cesana Carlo La Vecchia Giorgio Vittadini Alberico Catapano Giuseppe Mancia Ovidio Brignoli Alessandro Filippi Luigi Cantarutti Luca Merlino Carlo Zocchetti Flavia Carle |
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| description | <p>Healthcare utilisation databases, and other secondary data sources, have been used with growing frequency to assess health outcomes and healthcare interventions worldwide. Their increased popularity as a research tool is due to their timely availability, the large patient populations covered, low cost, and applicability for studying real-world clinical practice. Despite the need to measure Italian National Health Service performance both at regional and national levels, the wealth of good quality electronic data and the high standards of scientific research in this field, healthcare research and public health policies seem to progress along orthogonal dimensions in Italy. The main barriers to the development of evidence-based public health include the lack of understanding of evidence-based methodologies by policy makers, and of involvement of researchers in the policy process. The CRACK programme was launched by some academics from the Lombardy Region. By extensively using electronically stored data, epidemiologists, biostatisticians, pharmacologists and clinicians applied methods and evidence to several issues of healthcare research. The CRACK programme was based on their intention to remove barriers that thwart the process of bridging methods and findings from scientific journals to public health practice. This paper briefly describes aim, articulation and management of the CRACK programme, and discusses why it might find articulated application in Italy.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj-art-7292d0b032fb409f8825b5ecb9de28762025-08-20T01:57:40ZengMilano University PressEpidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health2282-09302013-09-0110310.2427/89808558The CRACK programme: a scientific alliance for bridging healthcare research and public health policies in ItalyGiovanni Corrao0Giancarlo Cesana1Carlo La Vecchia2Giorgio Vittadini3Alberico Catapano4Giuseppe Mancia5Ovidio Brignoli6Alessandro Filippi7Luigi Cantarutti8Luca Merlino9Carlo Zocchetti10Flavia Carle11Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, Division of Biostatistic, Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy and Centre for Public Health, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, ItalyDepartment of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Public Health Unit, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy and Centre for Public Health, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, ItalyDepartment of Epidemiology, IRCCS Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Milan, Italy and Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, ItalyDepartment of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Public Health Unit, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy and Centro di Ricerca Interuniversitario per i Servizi di Pubblica Utilità (CRISP), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, ItalyDepartment of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy and Centre for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoutilisation, University of Milano, Milan, ItalyIRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy and Centre for Clinical Physiology and Hypertension, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, ItalyItalian College of General Practitioners, Italy, Health Search, Florence, ItalyItalian College of General Practitioners, Italy, Health Search, Florence, ItalyFamily Paediatrician Pedianet Project, Padua, ItalyOperative Unit of Territorial Health Services, Lombardy Regional Administration, Milan, ItalyOperative Unit of Territorial Health Services, Lombardy Regional Administration, Milan, ItalyUnit of Health Management, Italian Ministry of Health, Rome, Italy and Centre for Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Medical Information Technology, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy<p>Healthcare utilisation databases, and other secondary data sources, have been used with growing frequency to assess health outcomes and healthcare interventions worldwide. Their increased popularity as a research tool is due to their timely availability, the large patient populations covered, low cost, and applicability for studying real-world clinical practice. Despite the need to measure Italian National Health Service performance both at regional and national levels, the wealth of good quality electronic data and the high standards of scientific research in this field, healthcare research and public health policies seem to progress along orthogonal dimensions in Italy. The main barriers to the development of evidence-based public health include the lack of understanding of evidence-based methodologies by policy makers, and of involvement of researchers in the policy process. The CRACK programme was launched by some academics from the Lombardy Region. By extensively using electronically stored data, epidemiologists, biostatisticians, pharmacologists and clinicians applied methods and evidence to several issues of healthcare research. The CRACK programme was based on their intention to remove barriers that thwart the process of bridging methods and findings from scientific journals to public health practice. This paper briefly describes aim, articulation and management of the CRACK programme, and discusses why it might find articulated application in Italy.</p>http://ebph.it/article/view/8980 |
| spellingShingle | Giovanni Corrao Giancarlo Cesana Carlo La Vecchia Giorgio Vittadini Alberico Catapano Giuseppe Mancia Ovidio Brignoli Alessandro Filippi Luigi Cantarutti Luca Merlino Carlo Zocchetti Flavia Carle The CRACK programme: a scientific alliance for bridging healthcare research and public health policies in Italy Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health |
| title | The CRACK programme: a scientific alliance for bridging healthcare research and public health policies in Italy |
| title_full | The CRACK programme: a scientific alliance for bridging healthcare research and public health policies in Italy |
| title_fullStr | The CRACK programme: a scientific alliance for bridging healthcare research and public health policies in Italy |
| title_full_unstemmed | The CRACK programme: a scientific alliance for bridging healthcare research and public health policies in Italy |
| title_short | The CRACK programme: a scientific alliance for bridging healthcare research and public health policies in Italy |
| title_sort | crack programme a scientific alliance for bridging healthcare research and public health policies in italy |
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