Quanto e come vengono applicate le linee guida in autoimmunologia nei laboratori italiani? Do Autoimmunology Laboratories follow guidelines? An Italian survey.

The Study Group on Autoimmune Diseases of the Italian Society of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in a meeting held in Mondello (Palermo) in October 2015 dealt with the issue of the application of international guidelines on the diagnosis of autoimmune diseases in Italian laboratories. Here we report the results of a survey conducted during the conference in which the participants through the televoting, have expressed the degree of compliance and highlighted critical aspects related to four guidelines on the diagnosis of celiac disease, autoimmune rheumatic diseases, anti-phospholipid syndrome and ANCA-associated vasculitis. The results show that in Italian Autoimmunology Laboratories there is great attention to this detailed and complex diagnostic specialty and that there is awareness that the evidence-based guidelines are an adequate model to pursue appropriateness and diagnostic accuracy purposes.