Using Failure Mode, Effect and Criticality Analysis to improve safety in the cancer treatment prescription and administration process.

Background: Administering cancer drugs is a high-risk process, and mistakes can have fatal consequences. Failure Mode, Effect and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) is a widely recognized method for identifying and preventing potential risks, applied in various settings, including healthcare. The aim of this study was to recognize potential failures in cancer treatment prescription and administration, with a view to enabling the adoption of measures to prevent them.

Adherence to Therapy, Physical and Mental Quality of Life in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis.

Ensuring multiple sclerosis (MS) patients' adherence to therapy is often challenging, but it is crucial to their survival and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The aim of the present study was to outline connections between adherence, physical and mental HRQoL, levels of psychological readiness to engage in a treatment, levels of social support, anthropometric, socio-demographic and clinical factors in patients suffering from MS. This cross-sectional study involved a sample of 237 Italian MS patients.

Health care service use and costs for a cohort of high-needs elderly diabetic patients.

Aims: To describe the impact of diabetes comorbidities on the health care services use and costs of a cohort of elderly patients with diabetes and high health care needs (HHCN), based on real-world data.

Methods: We focused on a cohort of diabetic patients with HHCN belonging to Resource Utilization Bands 4 and 5 according to the Adjusted Clinical Group (ACG) system. Their comorbidities were assessed using the clinical diagnoses that the ACG system assigns to single patients by combining different information flows.