ISICO PRINCIPLES

The principles that ISICO applies and promotes for the treatment and the evaluation of spinal pathologies can be expressed as follows:

  • efficacy: scientifically proven validity of used techniques, excluding alternative / traditional methods without any evidence;
  • effectiveness: with the same efficacy, efficient protocols, i.e., the least demanding ones in terms of time and costs;
  • research: implemented on a daily basis during the clinical activity, as a guarantee of continuous improvement;
  • innovation: new effective and efficacious techniques should as soon as possible be acquired and transferred to clinical practice;
  • acceptability: techniques that can be adapted to needs and preferences of the patient, who is not the object, but the subject of treatments;
  • humanization: the single person is at the core of treatment, thanks to dialogue and psychological attention;
  • team: all operators take part to the patient’s treatment, in a close collaboration;
  • transparency: complete and accurate documentation of what we do, that is made available to the patient and the family practitioner;
  • organization: the application of the right organisational principles allows us to favour processes of continuous improvement;
  • services appropriateness and reliability: they are a natural consequence of the application of principles described here.


HOW WE APPLY THESE PRINCIPLES

ISICO pursues its principles through:

  • clinical and scientific guarantees offered by the Scientific Board, Medical Board and Technical Board in the specific sector of spinal pathologies treatment;
  • research activity carried out with a high degree of independence and through cooperation with Universities and Research Institutes;
  • discussion of new international experiences published in the scientific literature;
  • systematic participation to the most important world sector Congresses;
  • shrewd choice of the therapies available today;
  • development of therapeutic protocols which are the same for all Centres and Practices of the Institute;
  • centralized, scientifically guaranteed and nationally coherent production of working schedules that are tailored on the single patient;
  • operators’ constant education;
  • implementation of specific projects for the verification of our therapeutic results.