Hospital Admission of Cancer Patients: Avoidable Practice or Necessary Care?

Gianmauro Numico; Antonella Cristofano; Alessandro Mozzicafreddo; Olga Elisabetta Cursio; Pierfrancesco Franco; Giulia Courthod; Antonio Trogu; Alessandra Malossi; Mariella Cucchi; Zuzana Sirotovà; Maria Rosa Alvaro; Anna Stella; Fulvia Grasso; Silvia Spinazzé; Nicola Silvestris

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0120827

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Hospital Admission of Cancer Patients: Avoidable Practice or Necessary Care?

Gianmauro Numico ,

* E-mail: gnumico@ausl.vda.it

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy
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Antonella Cristofano,

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy
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Alessandro Mozzicafreddo,

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy
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Olga Elisabetta Cursio,

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy
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Pierfrancesco Franco,

Affiliation University of Torino, Department of Oncology, Radiation Oncology Unit, Corso Bramante 88, 10126 Torino, Italy
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Giulia Courthod,

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy
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Antonio Trogu,

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy
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Alessandra Malossi,

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy
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Mariella Cucchi,

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy
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Zuzana Sirotovà,

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy
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Maria Rosa Alvaro,

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy
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Anna Stella,

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy
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Fulvia Grasso,

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy
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Silvia Spinazzé,

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy
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Nicola Silvestris

Affiliation Medical Oncology Unit, National Cancer Research Center, Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", Viale Orazio Flacco 65, 70124 Bari, Italy
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Hospital Admission of Cancer Patients: Avoidable Practice or Necessary Care?

Gianmauro Numico,
Antonella Cristofano,
Alessandro Mozzicafreddo,
Olga Elisabetta Cursio,
Pierfrancesco Franco,
Giulia Courthod,
Antonio Trogu,
Alessandra Malossi,
Mariella Cucchi,
Zuzana Sirotovà

Published: March 26, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0120827

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