How Far We Have Come: PREPARE-REHAB Enters Its Final Stretch

By Nayara Güércio . There comes a point in every ambitious research project when the work starts to feel a little like opening a very full suitcase. Everything is there. The ideas, the datasets, the pilot cases, the technical discussions, the clinical expertise, the ethical questions, the dissemination materials, the meetings, the publications, the partner […]
A Wonderful Achievement for Stefano Negrini and PREPARE-REHAB

King Salman International Award for Disability Research!
Patient expectations of AI-based computerized clinical decisionsupport system for improving continuity of careafter hospitalization: a cross-sectional study on rehabilitationafter total hip or knee replacement for osteoarthritis,with pilot questionnaire

Authors: Federico Pennestrì, Catia Pelosi, Annalisa Orenti, Petros Patias, Charalampos Georgiadis, Themistocles Roustanis, Giuseppe Banfi, The Prepare Project Group See here: https://www.recentiprogressi.it/archivio/4763/articoli/47821/
Commentary on: “Mapping the commonalities of rehabilitation: using GUIDE-rehab to open the black box of programmes across diverse health conditions”

By Paolo Boldrini and Mauro Zampolini.
Mapping the Commonalities of Rehabilitation: Using GUIDE-Rehab to Open the Black Box of Programmes Across Diverse Health Conditions

Authors: Stefano Negrini, Helena Burger, Paolo Capodaglio, Maria Gabriella Ceravolo, Lisa Hoogendam, Esther Janssen, Greta Jurenaite, Calogero Malfitano, Federico Pennestri, Ruud Selles, Gianluca M. Tartaglia, Carlotte Kiekens, and the PREPARE Group.
Still Talking About PREPARE at OHDSI Europe 2026 and for Good Reason

By Prof. Petros Patias . OHDSI Europe Symposium 2026 took place in Rotterdam from 18 to 20 April, bringing together 375 participants working across observational health data science. The programme included 130 posters and 15 software demonstrations, creating a busy and highly collaborative environment. The PREPARE-REHAB team was strongly represented, contributing three posters and one […]
Extracting Biomedical Entities from Clinical Records: A Comparative Study of Large Language Model Approaches

Authors: Erik Calcina, Erik Novak, Dunja Mladenic and the PREPARE project group
Predictive Factors of Inpatient Rehabilitation Outcomes and Stay: A Machine Learning Study with Temporal Validation

Authors: Andrea Campagner, Claudio Cordani, Catia Pelosi, Lorenza Buttafava, Lucia Imperiali, Stefano Borghi, Dario Grippa, Carlotte Kiekens, Stefano Negrini, Giuseppe Banfi, Federico Pennestrì
Head in the Clouds: What Can Satellites Tell Us About Hypertension? Insights from RSCy2026

By Prof. Petros Patias and Dr Vasiliki Fragkoulidou When people think about rehabilitation research, satellites are probably not the first thing that come to mind. The PREPARE-REHAB team, however, likes to think beyond the obvious. Last April, in Paphos, surrounded by discussions on geoinformation, environmental monitoring, and spatial technologies, the project joined researchers from around […]
The GUIDE-CDSS framework: a comprehensiveframework to GUIDE and evaluate the implementationof Clinical Decision Support Systems in healthcare,based on an overview of reviews

Authors: Esther R.C. Janssen, Jesper Knoop, Gianmatteo Farabolini, Nicolo Baldini, Thomas Hoogeboom, Maria Gabriella Ceravolo, Stefano Negrini, Carlotte Kiekens, PREPARE Project Group