Don’t repeat chemistry testing in the face of clinical and laboratory stability
In the general wards, the patients are often submitted to ripetitive draws of blood in the short terms, for redundant chemistry testing. Altered laboratory results often require controls, even though the original request was futile, and this amplifies the phenomenon....
Don’t diagnose asthma without having performed lung function tests (including bronchodilating test and/or bronchial challenge).
Asthma-like symptoms (dyspnoea, chest tightness, cough, wheezing) are not enough to put a correct diagnosis of asthma.The international guidelines stress the need to perform lung function assessment in order to identify the presence of airway hyperreactivity or...
Do not request the dosage of ANA (anti-nucleic autoantibody) and rheumatoid factor dosage to a child when there is the presence of arthralgia, without any clinical objectivity.
When a child has joint pain but does not meet the clinical criteria for the diagnosis of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis it is not very useful to require the determination of autoantibodies. These investigations are useful to better define the diagnosis, the prognosis...
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...The campaign DOING MORE DOES NOT MEAN DOING BETTER – CHOOSING WISELY ITALY is promoted by Italy’s Slow Medicine
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