Don’t perform preoperative hair removal with a razor blade in anticipation of surgery (AICO).
Hairs and hair can be a source of infection and hinder the full display of the surgery area and interfere subsequently with the disinfection of the wound. The latest scientific evidence supports in favour of shaving in cases when hairs in the incision area may...Do not perform repetitive laboratory tests when patients show clinical and laboratory stability.
During hospitalization, internal medicine patients often undergo a high number of blood samples for lab tests, usually redundant and repetitive, resulting in further diagnostic procedures. Frequent blood sampling is responsible for iatrogenic anemia with consequent...
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...The campaign DOING MORE DOES NOT MEAN DOING BETTER – CHOOSING WISELY ITALY is promoted by Italy’s Slow Medicine
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