ICT Tools for the Diagnosis of Autoimmune Diseases

"In Sicily, screening will be carried out in the general practitioner's clinics (GPs). GPs will have to submit the patients attending their clinics to the PoCT + software tools questionnaire. Subjects who are PoCT positive and/or who reach the minimum score in the questionnaire will be considered 'patients at risk of CD' and must be subjected, with prior consent, to in-depth diagnostics using standard serological methods. The subjects resulting positive in the serological investigations will then undergo the appropriate endoscopic and biopsy investigations to ascertain the presence of CD. In Malta the recruitment will exactly repeat the modalities already carried out in the ITAMA project, through the schools of Malta (Maltese takers), while the laboratory and endoscopic examinations of the subjects who tested positive for the PoCT and/or who will reach the minimum score in the software tools questionnaire will be centralized at the Mater Dei hospital."