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...
Don’t combine drugs for which there is no documented evidence of compatibility and chemical and physical stability in devices for the continuous subcutaneous or intravenous infusion of medications (e.g. Elastomers).
In palliative care it is common practice to administer of a combination of drugs by elastomeric pumps for continuous subcutaneous infusion when patients are unable to take oral medication. Due to incompatibility, some combinations may produce chemical-physical...
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 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...The campaign DOING MORE DOES NOT MEAN DOING BETTER – CHOOSING WISELY ITALY is promoted by Italy’s Slow Medicine
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