Appropriate Umbilical Stem Cells Prescriptions and Tests in Italy: Not Conforming Behaviours

Abstract

The aim of this work is to study the impact of formal errors in obstetric-gynaecologic prescriptions and tests validation, especially related to cord blood collection, at a Children's Hospital of Trieste (cape town of FVG region). To this purpose had been performed a monitoring, during 2013-14s, to improve appropriateness of prescriptions related to stem cells collection and to make more suitable and safe transplants and related medical cares.Medical prescriptions were monitored for 24 months (from 2013 January to 2014 December), and studied with a χ 2 test before and after analysis not in compliance with the activities, and was introduced a management protocol to improve the external quality assessment (EQA) of the related tests.The comparison of prescriptions and related tests during 2014-15s has highlighted a significant decreasing of not appropriate requests, mistakes of prescriptions about obstetric exemptions (p<0.05), and an improvement of 2 tests out standard deviation (SD), with a good entry of EQA in the first or in the second SD.