What do tumors and strokes have in common in two cities like Ancona and Rome? To be at the center of a collaborative project that aims to achieve ambitious research objectives: more complete and homogeneous diagnostic and therapeutic care paths, sharing of good practices and innovative projects to make patient care more effective, creation of networks of care that go beyond regional borders. The protagonists of the collaboration are the Ospedali Riuniti of Ancona and the Policlinico Tor Vergata in Rome which have already organized some meetings between specialists, the last of which recently in Ancona, in which the best practices in patient care were shared to strengthen the role of local health structures.
The initiative takes as a reference model the experience of CORM (Oncology and Research Center of Marche), a virtuous example for its characteristics of innovation, telemedicine, artificial intelligence, ability to incentivize networks and limit the movement of patients, which it can also be extended to neuroscience, cardiovascular disciplines and rare diseases.
“We met with great enthusiasm on an experience based on the ‘I am worth little if I consider myself and a lot if I compare myself’ which since the first meeting, held in Rome last summer, is giving great prospects to the ability to put together the best practices to strengthen our role as increasingly complex and effective structures in the panorama of our respective regions “- explains Michele Caporossi, General Manager of the University Hospital of Ospedali Riuniti in Ancona, one of the main supporters of the project together with Giuseppe Quintavalle, General Manager Tor Vergata Polyclinic in Rome.
The experience carried out in the Marche regarding the diagnostic, therapeutic and assistance pathway (PDTA) of stroke has already led to an optimization of treatment skills. “Patients from the Marche region can take advantage of equal and effective access to the best treatments available for the disease through the network that has been created between the various Stroke Units in the area” – explains Mauro Silvestrini, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at the University Polytechnic of the Marche. The comparison with the significant experience of Tor Vergata in the treatment of stroke, the reference center of the Roman metropolitan area for years, certainly contributed to achieving such a result.
“It is important to share decision-making processes between professionals, in a multidisciplinary and multi-professional perspective, as an effective tool for patients with breast cancer – says Rossana Berardi, Professor of Medical Oncology at the Polytechnic University of Marche, Director of the Oncology Clinic AOU Ospedali Riuniti of Ancona and coordinator of the Breast Unit of Ancona -. Today we are working to enrich the breast cancer PDTA to include those new procedures essential for a more complete patient care, that is cardio-oncology, with the collaboration of the Cardiology Clinic directed by Antonio Dello Russo, and the path of health of the bone with Gilberta Giacchetti, medical director at the University Hospital of Ospedali Riuniti Ancona, of the Endocrinology Clinic “.
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