Development of a prescriptive appropriateness project in RSAs affiliated with Local health authority of Vercelli: repercussions on the correct use of the drug and on the economic sustainability of the SSN.

Law 405/2001, DGR of 30 July 2012, n. 45-4248 and the DGR of 2 August 2013, n. 85-6287 provide that ASLs guarantee the direct distribution of drugs from the Company's Therapeutic Handbook (PTA) necessary for the treatment of patients in residential and semi-residential care.

Potentially inappropriate prescriptions for poly-treated patients in long-term care facilities: retrospective pharmacoutilization analysis.

BACKGROUND This study aimed to investigate, among elderly patients in long-term care (LTC) facilities, potentially inappropriate drug prescriptions, potentially interactions and verify whether they can be traced back to hospitalisations or accesses to the Emergency Department (ED). The study data were acquired by means of a case report form investigating the medication management process in LTCs. MATERIAL AND METHODS Analysis of pharmacutilisation in LTCFs patients aged ≥65 years on polypharmacy or excessive polypharmacy, January-July 2023.

Monitoring of the territorial consumption of antibiotics in local health authority of Vercelli as a measure to contrast AMR.

In 2022 the Italian Ministry of Health published the National Antibiotic Resistance Plan (PNCAR) 2022 - 2025 which provides the strategic guidelines and operational indications for dealing with the emergency of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). ESAC recorded, in the year 2021, an average consumption of 16.4 DDD/1000 inhab.