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ScientificWorldJournal ; 2012: 564706, 2012.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22654628

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Evidence of relative effectiveness of local treatments for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is scanty. We investigated, in a retrospective cohort study, whether surgical resection, radiofrequency ablation (RFA), percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI), and transarterial embolization with (TACE) or without (TAE) chemotherapy resulted in different survival in clinical practice. All patients first diagnosed with HCC and treated with any locoregional therapy from 1998 to 2002 in twelve Italian hospitals were eligible. Overall survival (OS) was the unique endpoint. Three main comparisons were planned: RFA versus PEI, surgical resection versus RFA/PEI (combined), TACE/TAE versus RFA/PEI (combined). Propensity score method was used to minimize bias related to non random treatment assignment. Overall 425 subjects were analyzed, with 385 (91%) deaths after a median followup of 7.7 years. OS did not significantly differ between RFA and PEI (HR 1.11, 95% CI 0.79-1.57), between surgery and RFA/PEI (HR 0.95, 95% CI 0.64-1.41) and between TACE/TAE and RFA/PEI (HR 0.88, 95% CI 0.66-1.17). 5-year OS probabilities were 0.14 for RFA, 0.18 for PEI, 0.27 for surgery, and 0.15 for TACE/TAE. No locoregional treatment for HCC was found to be more effective than the comparator. Adequately powered randomized clinical trials are still needed to definitely assess relative effectiveness of locoregional HCC treatment.


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Carcinoma Hepatocelular/mortalidade , Neoplasias Hepáticas/mortalidade , Idoso , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/cirurgia , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/terapia , Feminino , Humanos , Estimativa de Kaplan-Meier , Neoplasias Hepáticas/cirurgia , Neoplasias Hepáticas/terapia , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Modelos de Riscos Proporcionais , Estudos Retrospectivos , Resultado do Tratamento
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Ig Sanita Pubbl ; 65(4): 377-85, 2009.
Artigo em Italiano | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20010984

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Delivering prescription drugs directly to patients at the moment of discharge from the hospital is a useful tool for ensuring continuity in patient drug use, improving prescriptive appropriateness, limiting pharmaceutical expenditure and analyzing pharmacoepidemiological data. A project was therefore conducted from April 2005 to January 2007, at the G. Rumino hospital in Benevento (Italy), to encourage the direct delivery of drugs to patients upon discharge. The project consisted of various phases. Firstly, the medical records of all patients discharged from the hospital during April 2005 were analysed, mainly to collect information regarding discharge prescriptions, verify whether copies of the discharge form and prescription records were present in the chart, the type of drugs prescribed and whether these were available in the hospital pharmacy list of available drugs and had been dispensed to the patient. The percentage of drugs not available and of patients who did not pick up the prescribed drugs was calculated, critical aspects of the prescription process were analysed, and corrective measures implemented. A second evaluation of medical records was then performed for patients discharged in January 2007, to evaluate the effectiveness of the corrective measures applied. Results show that most discharged patients continue not to take advantage of the direct distribution of drugs in hospital and more information and communication to physicians and patients regarding this opportunity is required.


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Alta do Paciente , Medicamentos sob Prescrição , Humanos , Itália , Medicamentos sob Prescrição/normas
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