LE CADUTE ACCIDENTALI NELL\u2019AZIENDA OSPEDALIERA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI VERONA.

Le cadute accidentali del paziente durante la degenza in ospedale rappresentano un indicatore di processo e di esito della qualit\ue0 delle attivit\ue0 assistenziali, ma sono anche un evento sentinella considerato in grado di innescare processi di miglioramento della qualit\ue0 delle cure e favorire un atteggiamento proattivo, attraverso la ricerca delle cause che hanno determinato l\u2019evento. Per com- prendere le dinamiche del fenomeno, nell\u2019Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata (AOUI) di Verona \ue8 stata condotta una indagine retrospettiva biennale

Quality of life in patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

The authors evaluated quality of life in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease by administering the Medical Outcome Study Short Form-36 (SF-36) questionnaire to 121 Italian patients. Patients scored lower on all of the SF-36 scales compared with Italian normative data. Scores were lower in nonworking vs working patients, women vs men, and older vs younger patients, but not between patients with demyelinating vs axonal forms or between patients who had undergone orthopedic foot surgery vs those who had not

Metronomic chemotherapy (mCHT) in metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients: results of the VICTOR-6 study

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) represents a subtype of breast cancer which lacks the expression of oestrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) and human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2): TNBC accounts for approximately 20% of newly diagnosed breast cancers and is associated with younger age at diagnosis, greater recurrence risk and shorter survival time. Therapeutic options are very scarce. Aim of the present analysis is to provide further insights into the clinical activity of metronomic chemotherapy (mCHT), in a real-life setting