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Lambert BL, Schroeder SR, Cohen MR, Paparella S. Beyond mixed case lettering: reducing the risk of wrong drug errors requires a multimodal response. BMJ Qual Saf 2023; 32:6-9. [PMID: 35927018 DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs-2022-014841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- Bruce L Lambert
- Communication Studies, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, USA
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- Institute for Safe Medication Practice, Horsham, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Institute for Safe Medication Practice, Horsham, Pennsylvania, USA
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Paparella S. Making Ends Meet…When They Shouldn't: Accidental Misconnections Involving Endotracheal and Tracheostomy Cuff Ports. J Emerg Nurs 2020; 46:111-115. [PMID: 31918804 DOI: 10.1016/j.jen.2019.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2019] [Revised: 10/01/2019] [Accepted: 10/06/2019] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Adelman JS, Applebaum JR, Schechter CB, Berger MA, Reissman SH, Thota R, Racine AD, Vawdrey DK, Green RA, Salmasian H, Schiff GD, Wright A, Landman A, Bates DW, Koppel R, Galanter WL, Lambert BL, Paparella S, Southern WN. Effect of Restriction of the Number of Concurrently Open Records in an Electronic Health Record on Wrong-Patient Order Errors: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA 2019; 321:1780-1787. [PMID: 31087021 PMCID: PMC6518341 DOI: 10.1001/jama.2019.3698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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IMPORTANCE Recommendations in the United States suggest limiting the number of patient records displayed in an electronic health record (EHR) to 1 at a time, although little evidence supports this recommendation. OBJECTIVE To assess the risk of wrong-patient orders in an EHR configuration limiting clinicians to 1 record vs allowing up to 4 records opened concurrently. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This randomized clinical trial included 3356 clinicians at a large health system in New York and was conducted from October 2015 to April 2017 in emergency department, inpatient, and outpatient settings. INTERVENTIONS Clinicians were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to an EHR configuration limiting to 1 patient record open at a time (restricted; n = 1669) or allowing up to 4 records open concurrently (unrestricted; n = 1687). MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES The unit of analysis was the order session, a series of orders placed by a clinician for a single patient. The primary outcome was order sessions that included 1 or more wrong-patient orders identified by the Wrong-Patient Retract-and-Reorder measure (an electronic query that identifies orders placed for a patient, retracted, and then reordered shortly thereafter by the same clinician for a different patient). RESULTS Among the 3356 clinicians who were randomized (mean [SD] age, 43.1 [12.5] years; mean [SD] experience at study site, 6.5 [6.0] years; 1894 females [56.4%]), all provided order data and were included in the analysis. The study included 12 140 298 orders, in 4 486 631 order sessions, placed for 543 490 patients. There was no significant difference in wrong-patient order sessions per 100 000 in the restricted vs unrestricted group, respectively, overall (90.7 vs 88.0; odds ratio [OR], 1.03 [95% CI, 0.90-1.20]; P = .60) or in any setting (ED: 157.8 vs 161.3, OR, 1.00 [95% CI, 0.83-1.20], P = .96; inpatient: 185.6 vs 185.1, OR, 0.99 [95% CI, 0.89-1.11]; P = .86; or outpatient: 7.9 vs 8.2, OR, 0.94 [95% CI, 0.70-1.28], P = .71). The effect did not differ among settings (P for interaction = .99). In the unrestricted group overall, 66.2% of the order sessions were completed with 1 record open, including 34.5% of ED, 53.7% of inpatient, and 83.4% of outpatient order sessions. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE A strategy that limited clinicians to 1 EHR patient record open compared with a strategy that allowed up to 4 records open concurrently did not reduce the proportion of wrong-patient order errors. However, clinicians in the unrestricted group placed most orders with a single record open, limiting the power of the study to determine whether reducing the number of records open when placing orders reduces the risk of wrong-patient order errors. TRIAL REGISTRATION clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT02876588.
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- Jason S. Adelman
- Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Departmentof Quality and Patient Safety, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Departmentof Quality and Patient Safety, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York
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- Department of Family and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
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- Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Health System, Bronx, New York
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- Montefiore Health System, Bronx, New York
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- Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Health System, Bronx, New York
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- Departmentof Quality and Patient Safety, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Departmentof Quality and Patient Safety, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Department of Quality and Safety, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Primary Care Center, Harvard Medical School, Department of Medicine, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Departments of Sociology and Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University at Buffalo (SUNY), Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Academic Medicine and Geriatrics, and Departments of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmacy Systems, Outcomes, and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago
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- Department of Communication Studies, Center for Communication and Health, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
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- Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Horsham, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Health System, Bronx, New York
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Paparella S, Araújo SS, Rossi G, Wijayasinghe M, Carbonera D, Balestrazzi A. Seed priming: state of the art and new perspectives. Plant Cell Rep 2015; 34:1281-93. [PMID: 25812837 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-015-1784-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 197] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2015] [Revised: 03/15/2015] [Accepted: 03/16/2015] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Priming applied to commercial seed lots is widely used by seed technologists to enhance seed vigour in terms of germination potential and increased stress tolerance. Priming can be also valuable to seed bank operators who need improved protocols of ex situ conservation of germplasm collections (crop and native species). Depending on plant species, seed morphology and physiology, different priming treatments can be applied, all of them triggering the so-called 'pre-germinative metabolism'. This physiological process takes place during early seed imbibition and includes the seed repair response (activation of DNA repair pathways and antioxidant mechanisms), essential to preserve genome integrity, ensuring proper germination and seedling development. The review provides an overview of priming technology, describing the range of physical-chemical and biological treatments currently available. Optimised priming protocols can be designed using the 'hydrotime concept' analysis which provides the theoretical bases for assessing the relationship between water potential and germination rate. Despite the efforts so far reported to further improve seed priming, novel ideas and cutting-edge investigations need to be brought into this technological sector of agri-seed industry. Multidisciplinary translational research combining digital, bioinformatic and molecular tools will significantly contribute to expand the range of priming applications to other relevant commercial sectors, e.g. the native seed market.
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- S Paparella
- Department of Biology and Biotechnology 'L. Spallanzani', via Ferrata 1, 27100, Pavia, Italy
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Paparella S. Safe injection practices: keeping safety in and the "bugs" out. J Emerg Nurs 2011; 37:564-6. [PMID: 21889791 DOI: 10.1016/j.jen.2011.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2011] [Accepted: 07/20/2011] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Paparella S. Is a Back to Basics Approach to Medication Error Reduction Enough? J Emerg Nurs 2011; 37:309; author reply 310. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jen.2011.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2011] [Accepted: 05/05/2011] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Paparella S. Caring for the Caregiver: Moving Beyond the Finger Pointing After an Adverse Event. J Emerg Nurs 2011; 37:263-5. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jen.2011.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2011] [Accepted: 01/13/2011] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Paparella S. High-alert Medications: Shared Accountability for Risk Identification and Error Prevention. J Emerg Nurs 2010; 36:476-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jen.2010.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2010] [Accepted: 05/07/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Paparella S. Caution: All “Medrols” Are Not the Same. J Emerg Nurs 2009; 35:356-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jen.2009.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2009] [Accepted: 03/20/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Paparella S. Drifting Into “At-Risk” Behaviors: Is Your Emergency Department in Jeopardy? J Emerg Nurs 2009; 35:143-5. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jen.2008.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- Susan Paparella
- Institute for Safe Medicaion Practices, Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006, USA.
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Paparella S. Death by Syringe: A Call to Action. J Emerg Nurs 2008; 34:49-52. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jen.2007.09.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Susan Paparella
- Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Huntingdon Valley, Pa, USA.
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Paparella S. Unlabeled Containers: A Risky Proposition. J Emerg Nurs 2007; 33:143-6. [PMID: 17379032 DOI: 10.1016/j.jen.2006.11.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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- Susan Paparella
- Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006, USA.
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- Susan Paparella
- Consulting Services, Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006, USA.
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Mantovani F, Paparella S, Inneo V. V-05.07. Urology 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2006.08.1026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Mantovani F, Inneo V, Paparella S. V-07.02. Urology 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2006.08.1045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- Susan Paparella
- Consulting Services, Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Huntingdon Valley, PA, USA.
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- Susan Paparella
- Intitute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006, USA.
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- Susan Paparella
- Consulting Services, Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), Huntingdon Valley, PA, USA.
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Paparella S. Sample Medications Can Be Dangerous. J Emerg Nurs 2006; 32:172-4. [PMID: 16580484 DOI: 10.1016/j.jen.2005.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Susan Paparella
- Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Huntingdon Valley, PA, USA.
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- Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Huntingdon Valley, PA, USA.
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Mantovani F, Castelnuovo C, Paparella S, Inneo V. L-Propionil Carnitine (LPC) is a Propionic Outcome of Carnitine. Urologia 2006. [DOI: 10.1177/039156030607300406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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L-Propionil Carnitine (LPC) is a propionic derivative of Carnitine. It enhances mitochondrial activity, fat acids and free radical metabolism; it could therefore prove effective in preventing chronic oxidative diseases such as Cavernous fibrosis, which results essentially from an increase in endothelin, and a decrease in nitric oxide (NO) and prostaglandins (PGEi), as it occurs with hypoxia. An incidence of about 15% of segmentary cavernous fibrosis is reported as a consequence of, at least, a 72-hour catheterization. The physiopathology of the syndrome is still uncertain, but strongly related to vasculitis. We carried out a 15-month double-blind, prospective, randomized placebo-control study on 240 patients (age range: 42–68 years) on the possibility of preventing fìbrosis through LPC; study follow-up at 6 months, drug dose: 2g/day p.o. Cavernous fibrosis was reported in 11% of LPC treated patients, and 14% of the placebo group (p = l). Any kind of prevention, even if with poor outcomes as in our experience, should be usefully considered and improved.
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- F. Mantovani
- I Clinica Urologica, Fondazione Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli e Regina Elena, IRCCS di Natura Pubblica, Università degli Studi di Milano
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- I Clinica Urologica, Fondazione Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli e Regina Elena, IRCCS di Natura Pubblica, Università degli Studi di Milano
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- I Clinica Urologica, Fondazione Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli e Regina Elena, IRCCS di Natura Pubblica, Università degli Studi di Milano
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- I Clinica Urologica, Fondazione Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli e Regina Elena, IRCCS di Natura Pubblica, Università degli Studi di Milano
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- Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Huntingdon Valley, PA, USA
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- Consulting Services, Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Huntingdon Valley, Pa., USA.
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- Susan Paparella
- Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Huntingdon Valley, PA, USA.
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- Susan Paparella
- Consulting Services, Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006, USA.
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- Susan Paparella
- Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Huntingdon Valley, PA, USA.
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- Susan Paparella
- Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006, USA
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- Susan Paparella
- Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Huntingdon Valley, PA, USA
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- Susan Paparella
- Institute for Safe Medication Practices, 1800 Byberry Road, Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006, USA.
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- Institute for Safe Medication Practices, 1800 Byberry Road, Suite 800, Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006, USA.
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Mantovani F, Castelnuovo C, Paparella S, Bozzini G. Needle Colposuspension: Survey of Techniques and New Procedure Report. Urologia 2004. [DOI: 10.1177/039156030407100303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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To treat stress urinary incontinence plenty of techniques are today available. We present the results of a new, simple and cost free technique. The finger of the surgeon in the vagina checks Cooper ligament and guides the needle to pass behind it. Then it reaches the vagina where it takes a double suture. The needle rises up with the suture just above the ligament and crossing it, returns with the double suture in the vagina. With a large triple knot a tension free suspension is obtained. The success rate of 75 % was reported. The procedure basis its effectiveness on the ability of the new structure made up around the sutures by a fibrosis, to create a tension free suspension of vagina to Cooper ligament. This technique for the treatment of incontinence is reliable, simple and cheap and without controindications.
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- Dipartimento di urologia, Ospedale Maggiore, Milano
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- Dipartimento di urologia, Ospedale Maggiore, Milano
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- Dipartimento di urologia, Ospedale Maggiore, Milano
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- Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Huntingdon Valley, PA, USA.
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- Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006, USA.
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- Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Huntingdon Valley, PA, USA.
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Twenty-seven studies were reviewed to determine whether school-based drug abuse prevention efforts have succeeded. Most of the studies reviewed either did not examine program impact on actual drug using behavior or were not designed with a degree of scientific rigor sufficient to warrant acceptance of their findings as valid. Those studies leading to reliable results regarding program effect on drug use were contradictory in their conclusions. In view of the possibility that educational efforts aimed at drug abuse prevention may be counterproductive, it is suggested that school-based programs henceforward be designed and conducted as experiments with controlled manipulation of relevant variables.
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