Resultados: 15

    An official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice guideline: the diagnosis of intensive care unit-acquired weakness in adults

    RATIONALE: Profound muscle weakness during and after critical illness is termed intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICUAW). OBJECTIVES: To develop diagnostic recommendations for ICUAW. METHODS: A multidisciplinary expert committee generated diagnostic questions. A systematic review was performed, and ...

    Paget's disease of bone: an endocrine society clinical practice guideline

    OBJECTIVE: The aim of this guideline was to formulate practice guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of Paget's disease of the bone. PARTICIPANTS: The guideline was developed by an Endocrine Society-appointed Task Force of experts, a methodologist, and a medical writer. EVIDENCE: This evidence-based...

    Dietary and pharmacologic management to prevent recurrent nephrolithiasis in adults: a clinical practice guideline from the American College of Physicians

    Ann. Intern. med; 161 (9), 2014
    DESCRIPTION: The American College of Physicians (ACP) developed this guideline to present the evidence and provide clinical recommendations on the comparative effectiveness and safety of preventive dietary and pharmacologic management of recurrent nephrolithiasis in adults. METHODS: This guideline is bas...

    Acromegaly: an endocrine society clinical practice guideline

    OBJECTIVE: The aim was to formulate clinical practice guidelines for acromegaly. PARTICIPANTS: The Task Force included a chair selected by the Endocrine Society Clinical Guidelines Subcommittee (CGS), five experts in the field, and a methodologist. The authors received no corporate funding or remuneratio...

    Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) for Pneumococcal Vaccines for Adults aged ≥65 years

    MMWR recomm. rep; 63 (37), 2014
    GRADE was used to evaluate 13-valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV13) for routine use among adults aged ≥65 years. Evidence of benefits, harms, values and preferences, and cost-effectiveness were reviewed in accordance with GRADE methods.[1] The primary policy question was “Should PCV13 be adm...

    Consensus summary statement of the International Multidisciplinary Consensus Conference on Multimodality Monitoring in Neurocritical Care: a statement for healthcare professionals from the Neurocritical Care Society and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine

    Intensive care med; 40 (9), 2014
    Neurocritical care depends, in part, on careful patient monitoring but as yet there are little data on what processes are the most important to monitor, how these should be monitored, and whether monitoring these processes is cost-effective and impacts outcome. At the same time, bioinformatics is a rapid...

    Nonsurgical management of urinary incontinence in women: a clinical practice guideline from the American College of Physicians

    Ann. intern. med; 161 (6), 2014
    DESCRIPTION: The American College of Physicians (ACP) developed this guideline to present the evidence and provide clinical recommendations on the nonsurgical management of urinary incontinence (UI) in women. METHODS: This guideline is based on published English-language literature on nonsurgical managem...

    Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) for Use of Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine (LAIV) and Inactivated Influenza Vaccine (IIV) in Children

    MMWR recomm. rep; 63 (32), 2014
    An adaptation of Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) methods [1] was used to evaluate relative benefits and harms of live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) and inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV) for healthy children aged 2 through 8 years. As of the 2013-14 influ...

    Diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea in adults: a clinical practice guideline from the American College of Physicians

    Ann. intern. med; 161 (3), 2014
    DESCRIPTION: The American College of Physicians (ACP) developed this guideline to present the evidence and provide clinical recommendations on the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea in adults. METHODS: This guideline is based on published literature on this topic that was identified by using MEDLINE (1...

    Pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma: an endocrine society clinical practice guideline

    "OBJECTIVE: The aim was to formulate clinical practice guidelines for pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma (PPGL). PARTICIPANTS: The Task Force included a chair selected by the Endocrine Society Clinical Guidelines Subcommittee (CGS), seven experts in the field, and a methodologist. The authors received n...