Sustainability is becoming a crucial research area, not only considering industrial contexts, but also managing healthcare, environmental, and social issues, adopting a holistic, multidimensional, and multi-stakeholders’ approach. In a world where economic growth has been the primary objective in all the industries, the need to integrate environmental and social sustainability into business strategies first and […]
Within the healthcare setting, knowledge management would result in better addressing the patients’ needs, enabling greater efficiency in diagnosis and research activities, and improving the decision-making process. One of the main assets that could be used to ameliorate delivery of services, quality, and efficiency performance, through an analysis of data and evidence (Alsunaidi et al, […]
Due to COVID-19, telemedicine solutions, in general, have played a crucial role, with their ability to minimize physical physician-patient contacts, and to optimize healthcare system capacity, during demand surges, guaranteeing the taking in charge of the patients and the continuity of care. The present study aims at investigating the feasibility and economic/organizational sustainability of an […]
The presence of comorbidities and multiple chronic diseases, and the related prescription of complex medications, as well as concerns in therapies changes, present many professional challenges in the clinical decision-making process. Multiple medications’ use (i.e. polypharmacy), is common in this population, and could be associated to adverse outcomes and presence of drug-drug interactions. The present […]