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Overall prevalence of epilepsy ranges from 4 to 10 cases per 1000. Italy lacks recent epidemiological studies on large populations. In the present study, prevalence of epilepsy has been assessed in Tuscany, an Italian Region with 3,750,000 habitants, implementing an algorithm based on administrative data from the Regional Information Health System. To identify patients with epilepsy, we used at least...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a major worldwide public health problem with a prevalence that is expected to increase dramatically in the coming decades. Because administrative data are useful for epidemiologic and health service studies, we aimed to define procedural algorithms to identify PD patients (on a regional basis) using these data. We built two a priori algorithms, respecting privacy laws,...
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