Articoli Scientifici
Support Care Cancer 1996 Jan;4(1):56-60

Classification and staging of terminal cancer patients: rationale and objectives of a multicentre cohort prospective study and methods used. The Italian Co-operative Research Group on Palliative Medicine.

Toscani F.

Sezione di Terapia del Dolore e Cure Palliative. Azienda Ospedaliera Cremonese, Cremona, Italy.

J Pain Symptom Manage 1999 Oct;18(4):243-52

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Terminal cancer patients and timing of referral to palliative care: a multicenter prospective cohort study. Italian Cooperative Research Group on Palliative Medicine.

Costantini M, Toscani F, Gallucci M, Brunelli C, Miccinesi G, Tamburini M, Paci E, Di Giulio P, Peruselli C, Higginson I, Addington-Hall J.

Palliat Med 1999 May;13(3):233-41

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Home palliative care for terminal cancer patients: a survey on the final week of life.

Peruselli C, Di Giulio P, Toscani F, Gallucci M, Brunelli C, Costantini M, Tamburini M, Paci E, Miccinesi G, Addington-Hall JM, Higginson IJ.

 

J Pain Symptom Manage 2001 Mar;21(3):179-88

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Quality of life assessment and outcome of palliative care.

Paci E, Miccinesi G, Toscani F, Tamburini M, Brunelli C, Constantini M, Peruselli C, Di Giulio P, Gallucci M, Addington-Hall J, Higginson IJ.

Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2003 Nov 7;1(1):65. Epub 2003 Nov 07 

Life at the end of life: beliefs about individual life after death and "good death" models - a qualitative study.

Toscani F, Borreani C, Boeri P, Miccinesi G.

Corresponding Author: F. Toscani, "Lino Maestroni" Institute for Research in Palliative Medicine, Via Palestro 1 - 26100 Cremona, Italy. toscani.f@dinet.it

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Il n° 11 della rivista Janus (autunno 2003) ha pubblicato a pagina 127 l’articolo Hospice: origine e destino di un termine medico di F. Toscani e G. Barazzetti. Editoriale ed indice del numero della rivista sono disponibili in formato Acrobat Reader sul sito dell’editore ( www.zadig.it ).

 

 Il n° 12 della rivista Janus (inverno 2003) ha pubblicato a pag. 51 l’articolo L’incertezza dell’ultima cena di F. Toscani. Editoriale ed indice del numero della rivista sono disponibili in formato Acrobat Reader sul sito dell’editore ( www.zadig.it ).

 

 Il n° 14 della rivista Janus (estate 2004) ha pubblicato a pag. 108 l’articolo Living will o living wish? Di F. Toscani. Editoriale ed indice del numero della rivista sono disponibili in formato Acrobat Reader sul sito dell’editore ( www.zadig.it ).

 

 Il n° 17 della rivista Janus (primavera 2005) ha pubblicato a pag. 135 l’articolo Il vero miracolo del professor Di Bella di F. Toscani. Editoriale ed indice del numero della rivista sono disponibili in formato Acrobat Reader sul sito dell’editore ( www.zadig.it ).

 Palliative Medicine 2005; 19: 220- 227 

Predicting survival in terminal cancer patients: clinical observations or quality-of-life evaluations?

Franco Toscani and Cinzia Brunelli Istituto di Ricerca in Medicina Palliativa “Lino Maestroni”, Cremona, Guido Miccinesi, CSPO, Istituto Scientifico della Regione Toscana, Firenze, Massimo Costantini Servizio di Epidemiologia Clinica e Sperimentazioni Controllate, Istituto nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genova, Michele Gallucci Unità di Cure Palliative  e Terapia del Dolore, Desio, Marcello Tamburini Servizio di Psicologia, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milano, Eugenio Paci CSPO, Istituto Scientifico della Regione Toscana Firenze, Paola Di Giulio Dip. Sanità Pubblica e Microbiologia, Facolta di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Carlo Peruselli Unità Operativa di Cure Palliative , Ospedale di Biella.

J Pain Symptom Management Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 33-40 (July 2005)

How People Die in Hospital General Wards: A Descriptive Study

Franco Toscani MDCorresponding Author Contact Information, Paola Di Giulio RN, MSC, Cinzia Brunelli ScD, Guido Miccinesi MD, Dario Laquintana RN and on behalf of the End-of-Life Observatory Groupasterisk operator

Lino Maestroni Palliative Medicine Research Institute (F.T., C.B.), Cremona; Nursing Research Unit (P.D.G., D.L.), Mario Negri Institute, Milan; and Epidemiology Unit (G.M.), Center for the Study and Prevention of Cancer, Florence, Italy

Accepted 11 January 2005.  Available online 25 July 2005.

Abstract

To describe how patients die in hospital, 370 patients (age >18 years; in hospital for > 24 hours) who died on the general wards of 40 Italian hospitals were assessed. Differences between patients whose death was expected and patients whose death was unexpected were evaluated. Data on treatments and care in proximity of death were collected after interviewing the nurse responsible for the patient within 72 hours of the patient's death, and from clinical and nursing records. For 58% of patients, death was highly expected. Symptom control was inadequate for the most severely ill patients: 75% experienced at least one “severe” symptom (42% pain and 45% dyspnea). Nurses tended to judge patients' global care as “good” or “very good” (76%), in spite of the persistence of symptoms and the scant use of analgesics. Despite some encouraging signs of sensitivity to end-of-life problems, acute inpatient institutions in Italy still deal inadequately with the needs of dying persons.

Key Words: Hospital death; terminal patients; end-of-life; symptom control; palliative care

 Il n° 20 della rivista Janus (inverno 2005) ha pubblicato a pag. 53 l'articolo "Alla guerra del dolore con le armi di una volta" di F.Toscani.Editoriale ed indice del numero della rivista sono disponibili in formato Acrobat Reader sul sito dell’editore ( www.zadig.it ).

American Journal of Bioethics
  Publisher:  Taylor & Francis
  Issue:  Volume 6, Number 1 / January-February 2006
  Pages:  W6 - W18
  URL:  Linking Options
  DOI:  10.1080/15265160500394994

 

Deception, Catholicism, and Hope: Understanding Problems in the Communication of Unfavorable Prognoses in Traditionally-Catholic Countries

 

Franco Toscani A1 and Calliope Farsides A2

A1 Fondazione Lino Maestroni—Instituto di Ricerca in Medicina Palliativa—Cremona
A2 King's College London
 

Abstract:

 

The doctor's use of deception in appropriate circumstances has commonly been considered a necessity of the medical art. Resistance to full and frank communication is typical of many traditionally Catholic countries, and particularly of Italy, a western country where Catholicism remains particularly influential. The Catholic teaching on truth and lies, and the problem of telling the truth to a severely ill patient is discussed. It is suggested that the contemporary Catholic model of gradually telling a terminal patient the truth, which looks reasonable and feasible in theory, is rarely followed in practice, as in the majority of cases the truth is not told tout court. Problems stem from the way in which medicine is currently practiced in Italy; from the synergism between Catholicism and the medical tradition's grounded paternalism; and from the ambiguity of the term ‘hope’. Catholic ethics in fact recommends that the truth must be told without destroying hope, but the Catholic meaning of ‘hope’ is very different from its meaning in current language.

 


Keywords:

Catholicism, communication to terminal patients, deception of prognosis, hope, medical deontology, truth-telling


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Il numero  154- 2006 di Salute e Territorio ha pubblicato l'articolo " Cure palliative ed eutanasia . Un conflitto insanabile? " di Franco Toscani.

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Il n° 22 della rivista Janus (estate 2006), ha pubblicato a pag. 116/117 l'articolo "....fare una pessima morte" di F.Toscani. Editoriale ed indice del numero della rivista sono disponibili in formato Acrobat Reader sul sito dell’editore ( www.zadig.it ).

 

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