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Collaboration with the Health Care Agency, Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy

Center staff are collaborating with the Regional Health Care Agency of the Emilia-Romagna Region of Italy in a series of projects addressing a wide range of issues in health care organization, financing of the health care system, and quality improvement activities. Ongoing activities include:

• development of a longitudinal, population-based, health care utilization database including the four million residents of the region;

• refinement and validation of a method for assessing the timelines and appropriateness of acute hospital use;

• risk adjustment models to assist in planning and financing at the local level;

• assessment of appropriateness of outpatient prescription use; and

• analysis of the impact of prescription drug co-payments on patterns of drug use and patient outcomes.

For more information: daniel.louis@jefferson.edu