Clinical guidelines for the appropriate use of cardiac stents released in Tuscany

With a regional decree 381 of March 23, 2020, Tuscany Regional Healthcare has published clinical guidelines on the appropriateness of use and indications on the variability of the consumption of the stents for the arteriopathy of the lower limbs, the carotid stents, and the coronary stents.

The documents also contain the information on the consumption and spending of these devices in Tuscany in 2018 (per model; all three documents), as well as the number of procedures performed by each Tuscan hospital (not available for coronary stents)

See the regional decree and the guideline documents (as attachments A, B, and C) in Italian here.

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