Table 2 Main issues emerging from the interviews
From: Compassionate use programs in Italy: ethical guidelines
Subjects interviewed | Topic |
|---|---|
Three components of the EC | Increasing number of requests |
Absence of exceptions to the procedure | |
Absence of good clinical practice | |
Safety tests and guarantee of efficacy often lacking | |
Not adhering to MD 2003 | |
Specific case: | |
Multiple Bias of the study of the drug requested | |
Problem of patient information | |
Importance of an informed decision and the activation of PC | |
Simultaneous PC | |
Right to hope | |
Quality of life | |
Proposing physician | Patient already self-informed |
Patient in good general conditions | |
excellent evaluation of the PC intervention at the EC’s request | |
Palliative Care Specialist | Simultaneous PC |
Patient awareness, informed decision | |
Guarantee quality of life | |
Specific case: | |
Risk of misunderstanding of PC | |
No continuity of patient management before and after the interview regarding compassionate requesting |