title: Italian Society of Surgery and Association of Stoma Care Nurses Joint Position Statement on Preoperative Stoma Siting.
abstract: Drawing on the existing position statements approved by the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing Society in collaboration with the American Society of Colon & Rectal Surgeons and the American Urological Association, the Italian Association of Stoma care Nurses and the Italian Society of Surgery jointly developed and approved this document on July 27, 2013. Its purpose was to provide a formal recommendation for preoperative stoma siting and associated counseling for all patients undergoing enterostomy or urostomy surgery, with the goals of preventing complications, enhancing health-related quality of life, improving care, achieving better health outcomes, and reducing health care costs.
authors.affiliation: Gabriele Roveron, MSN, RN, WOC, Italian Association of Stoma care Nurses (AIOSS-Associazione Italiana Operatori Sanitari di Stomaterapia), and Ostomy and Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation Centre, S. Maria Della Misericordia Hospital, Rovigo, Italy. Giorgio De Toma, MD, Italian Society of Surgery (SIC-Società Italiana di Chirurgia), and "P. Valdoni" Department of Surgery, Policlinico Umberto I, "La Sapienza" University, Rome, Italy. Maria Barbierato, RN, WOC, Ostomy Centre, Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova, Padova, Italy.
authors.forename: Gabriele
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Roveron
authors.forename: Giorgio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: De Toma
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Barbierato
mesh_terms: D037001:Directive Counseling; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D016134:Organizational Policy; D010030:Ostomy; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011300:Preoperative Care; D012955:Societies, Medical; D012956:Societies, Nursing; D054047:Surgical Stomas