Do not request the dosage of ANCA (antibodies against the cytoplasm of neutrophils) only in the presence of a clinical suspicion of connectivitis, without adequate and documented evaluation or evident clinical suspect of a vasculitis.
As is well known, ANCAs are associated with a group of small vessel vasculites called ANCA-associated vasculitis, which include microscopic polyangiitis, granulomatosis with polyangiitis (M. of Wegener) and eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (m....
Do not request the dosage of anti-CCP antibodies (cyclic citrullinated peptide) simply based on the presence of arthralgia.
On the basis of the simple presence of arthralgia, advanced diagnostic investigations are not proposed that could easily be inappropriate, and that mainly have a prognostic significance for a correct rheumatological clinical evaluation as a function of early...
Don’t draw biased opinion in terms of health professional responsibilities, which may lead to false expectations in the assisted
Forensics endeavors to achieve equal and rigorous ethical and scientific commitment in any field its advice may be devised, avoiding manipulation and distortion of clinical, scientific and technical data , in the knowledge that advice remote from reality not only may...
Don’t draw advice and expertise without joining forensic criteriology* or lacking thorough technical and scientific analysis of clinical problems.
In all areas of inquiry and in particular within healthcare professional responsibility, Forensics is committed to pursuing a high-quality reliable method, avoiding fideistic assessments, merely based on personal experience. Moreover it undertakes to erect a barrier...The campaign DOING MORE DOES NOT MEAN DOING BETTER – CHOOSING WISELY ITALY is promoted by Italy’s Slow Medicine
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