Appropriateness of test request and clinical outcome: the case of autoimmune diseases

Objectives: To improve the appropriateness in the autoantibody test requests for proper diagnosis of systemic rheumatic autoimmune diseases, celiac disease and anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA)-associated vasculitides. Methodology: Review of recommendations proposed by the Study Group in Autoimmunology (GDS-AI) of the Italian Society of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (SIPMeL) and the European Society For Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHaN) Results: This document aims to bring to the attention of general practitioners the recommendations proposed by National and International study group to improve the appropriateness in the autoantibody test requests expecially in sytemic autoimmune and celiac disease. Conclusions: Autoimmunity is a specialistic laboratory area where the costs are extremely high compared to other diagnostics: it would therefore be very helpful and economically advantageous to align the clinicians on appropriate requests and the laboratory on useful diagnostics. In Autoimmunology, diagnostic appropriateness remains a complex and debated topic from the management, professional and economic point of view.

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Evaluation of the international study group on pancreatic surgery definition and classification of chyle leak after pancreatic surgery

HPB ◽

10.1016/j.hpb.2020.11.721 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 23 ◽

pp. S285-S286

Author(s):

T. Ma ◽

M. Lao ◽

X. Bai ◽

T. Liang

Keyword(s):

Pancreatic Surgery ◽

International Study ◽

Study Group ◽

Chyle Leak ◽

International Study Group

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International study group for steroid hormones

Journal of Steroid Biochemistry ◽

10.1016/0022-4731(79)90176-6 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. iii

Keyword(s):

Steroid Hormones ◽

International Study ◽

Study Group ◽

International Study Group

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Intention to treat outcomes among patients with pancreatic cancer treated using International Study Group on Pancreatic Surgery recommended pathways for resectable and borderline resectable disease

ANZ Journal of Surgery ◽

10.1111/ans.16643 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Sivesh K. Kamarajah ◽

Nikolaos Chatzizacharias ◽

James Hodson ◽

Francesca Marcon ◽

Marit Kalisvaart ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Pancreatic Cancer ◽

Pancreatic Surgery ◽

International Study ◽

Study Group ◽

Borderline Resectable ◽

Resectable Disease ◽

Intention To Treat ◽

International Study Group

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Cervicogenic Headache: Lack of Influence of Pregnancy

Cephalalgia ◽

10.1046/j.1468-2982.2002.00408.x ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 22 (8) ◽

pp. 667-671 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

O Sjaastad ◽

TA Fredriksen

Keyword(s):

International Headache Society ◽

Biological Marker ◽

International Study ◽

Cervicogenic Headache ◽

Lower Number ◽

Control Group ◽

Study Group ◽

Head Pain ◽

International Study Group ◽

A Minor

The influence of pregnancy upon the head pain of cervicogenic headache (CEH) has been studied in 14 patients (number of pregnancies 25). Migraine was used as control group ( n = 49; number of pregnancies 116). CEH was diagnosed according to The Cervicogenic Headache International Study Group guidelines. Migraine was diagnosed according to International Headache Society (IHS) guidelines; a further requirement was that at least eight of nine solitary IHS diagnostic requirements of migraine were present. In 79%—or more—of CEH patients, attacks seemed to appear just as usual during pregnancy; in one patient, attacks stopped completely, and in two there may have been a minor reduction of attacks. A significantly lower number of migraine patients (up to 18%) were more or less uninfluenced by pregnancy (CEH vs. migraine P < 0.0001, X2 test). The lack of response to pregnancy may be a sort of biological marker in CEH. It may also help in clinically distinguishing CEH from migraine when CEH starts early in life, i.e. prior to pregnancies.

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Systematic review and meta-analysis of risk factors of postoperative pancreatic fistula after distal pancreatectomy in the era of 2016 International Study Group Pancreatic Fistula definition

HPB ◽

10.1016/j.hpb.2021.02.015 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Eric Chong ◽

Bathiya Ratnayake ◽

Shiela Lee ◽

Jeremy J. French ◽

Colin Wilson ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Systematic Review ◽

Pancreatic Fistula ◽

Distal Pancreatectomy ◽

Meta Analysis ◽

International Study ◽

Postoperative Pancreatic Fistula ◽

Study Group ◽

International Study Group

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Toward improving uniformity and standardization in the reporting of pancreatic anastomoses: A new classification system by the International Study Group of Pancreatic Surgery (ISGPS)

Surgery ◽

10.1016/j.surg.2009.09.003 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 147 (1) ◽

pp. 144-153 ◽

Cited By ~ 40

Author(s):

Parul J. Shukla ◽

Savio G. Barreto ◽

Abe Fingerhut ◽

Claudio Bassi ◽

Markus W. Büchler ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Classification System ◽

Pancreatic Surgery ◽

International Study ◽

Study Group ◽

New Classification ◽

International Study Group

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THE ROLE OF PRIVATE LAW IN PROMOTING SOCIAL JUSTICE

Obiter ◽

10.17159/obiter.v32i1.12286 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Eltjo Schrage

Keyword(s):

Legal History ◽

International Study ◽

Study Group ◽

Private Law ◽

International Study Group ◽

Nelson Mandela ◽

History Of ◽

The Law ◽

Metropolitan University ◽

The University

The first contribution published in this edition is an abridged version of the inaugural lecture delivered by Professor Eltjo JH Schrage on 24 August 2009 in Port Elizabeth. The Faculty of Law is honoured that such an internationally esteemed jurist accepted the appointment as first Honorary Professor of the Faculty of Law in 2009. Prof Eltjo JH Schrage was born in Groningen. He studied law at the University of Groningen, where he obtained his doctorandus, a degree which is analogous to our master’s degree. In 1975 he defended his doctoral thesis entitled Libertas est facultas naturalis. Menselijke vrijheid in een tekst van de Romeinse jurist Florentinus (Human liberty in a text of the Roman jurist Florentinus). His academic career commenced in 1969 at the Free University, Amsterdam. In 1980 he was appointed as professor at the Free University in Roman Law and Legal History. In 1998 he became the director of the Paul Scholten Institute at the University of Amsterdam. Some of his other academic appointments include the following:• Chairperson: International Study Group on the Comparative Legal History of the Law of Restitution;• Chairperson: International Study Group on the Comparative Legal History of the Law of Torts;• Visiting Professor: University of Cape Town;• Visiting Fellow: Magdalen College, Oxford University as well as visiting professor at Oxford;• Visiting Professor: University of the North (now Limpopo) in Polokwane; and• Visiting Fellow: Trinity College, Cambridge University as well as visiting professor, Cambridge. Prof Schrage has published extensively in International journals in Dutch, English, German French, and Italian. He has edited, written and contributed to more than 30 books, and written more than 100 articles. He has been the supervisor of numerous doctoral students, including Prof Marita Carnelley of the University of KwaZulu-Natal and erstwhile member of the Faculty of Law, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and Prof André Mukheibir, Head of Department, Private Law of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. He was also the promoter of the honorary doctorate awarded by the University of Amsterdam to the former chief justice of South Africa, Arthur Chaskalson in 2002. Prof Schrage has also acted as judge in the Amsterdam court since 1981. Prof Schrage is married to Anneke Buitenbos-Schrage and the couple have four children and one grandchild.

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