Don’t initiate or prolong artificial nutrition (enteral or parenteral) in late stage cancer patients with a life expectancy of less than a few weeks and a Performance Status <50.
Currently, there is no evidence from observational or experimental studies showing the effectiveness, in terms of increased survival or improved quality of life, of administering artificial nutrition to end-stage cancer patients with limited life-expectancy and poor...
Avoid prescribing routine immunological tests in children with recurrent respiratory infections.
Immunological and genetic investigations are not need when the child is suffering from undifferentiated common viral infections affecting the upper airways and when there is no family history of primary lung diseases or hereditary immunodeficiencies. The decision to...
Avoid ruling out a food from the diet only for the positivity of skin prick tests and/or specific serum IgE.
An accurate medical history is essential for the diagnosis of food allergy, in particular should be investigated a framework compliant with food allergy and a temporal relationship between the introduction of food and the appearance of symptoms. The presence of skin...
Avoid prescribing mucolytics in children with bronchial asthma.
Inflammation, mucosal edema and mucus hypersecretion increase the narrowing of the bronchial lumen with the formation of mucus plugs that worsen bronchial obstruction in patients with asthma. Studies conducted on the effectiveness of mucolytics to treat asthma and its...The campaign DOING MORE DOES NOT MEAN DOING BETTER – CHOOSING WISELY ITALY is promoted by Italy’s Slow Medicine
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