This guideline covers recognising, diagnosing and managing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD) in children, young people and adults. It aims to improve recognition and diagnosis, as well
as the quality of care and support for people with ADHD.
In September 2019 we amended the recommendation o...
This guideline covers preventing, identifying and managing latent and active tuberculosis (TB) in children, young people and adults. It aims to improve ways of finding people who have TB in the community and recommends that everyone under 65 with latent TB should be treated. It describes how TB services ...
For patients with acute respiratory insufficiency, mechanical ("invasive") ventilation is a fundamental therapeutic measure to ensure sufficient gas exchange. Despite decades of strong research efforts, central questions on mechanical ventilation therapy are still answered incompletely. Therefore, many d...
Hypertension is the most common disease in the world, affecting more than a billion people, and the leading cause of death and disability (Williams 2018).
In Estonia as well, cardiovascular diseases, including hypertension with complications, rank first among the causes of morbidity and death. High bloo...
Overweight and obesity are an increasing health problem of the population all over the world, including in Estonia. According to the data of the Estonian adult population health behavior survey conducted in 2018, 40% of Estonian men and 26% of women are overweight, and 21% of men and 18% of women are obe...
This guideline covers the care that should be offered to women with a twin or triplet pregnancy in addition to the routine care that is offered to all women during pregnancy. It aims to reduce the risk of complications and improve outcomes for women and their babies....
Generar recomendaciones basadas en la mejor evidencia disponible acerca del manejo de personas
con cáncer de ovario....
Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), or sleeping sickness, is a parasitic infection that
is almost invariably fatal unless treated. It is a neglected tropical disease that occurs in
sub-Saharan Africa.
The infection is transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected tsetse fly. The
parasite multipl...
Ergan, B;
Oczkowski, S;
Rochwerg, B;
Carlucci, A;
Chatwin, M;
Clini, E;
Elliott, M;
Gonzalez-Bermejo, J;
Hart, N;
Lujan, M;
Nasilowski, J;
Nava, S;
Pepin, J. L;
Pisani, L;
Storre, J. H;
Wijkstra, P;
Tonia, T;
Boyd, J;
Scala, R;
Windisch, W.
While the role of acute non-invasive ventilation (NIV) has been shown to improve outcome in acute life-threatening hypercapnic respiratory failure in COPD, the evidence of clinical efficacy of long-term home NIV (LTH-NIV) for management of COPD is less. This document provides evidence-based recommendatio...
Holguin, Fernando;
Cardet, Juan Carlos;
Chung, Kian Fan;
Diver, Sarah;
Ferreira, Diogenes S;
Fitzpatrick, Anne;
Gaga, Mina;
Kellermeye, Liz;
Khurana, Sandhya;
Knight, Shandra;
McDonald, Vanessa M;
Morgan, Rebecca L;
Ortega, Victor E;
Rigau, David;
Subbarao, Padmaja;
Tonia, Thomy;
Adcock, Ian M;
Bleecker, Eugene R;
Brightling, Chris;
Boulet, Louis-Philippe;
Cabana, Michael;
Castro, Mario;
Hamerlijnck, Dominique;
Jarjour, Nizar;
Konno, Satoshi;
Shen, Huahao;
Vitary, Cathy;
Bush, Andy.
This document provides clinical recommendations for the management of severe asthma. Comprehensive evidence syntheses, including meta-analyses, were performed to summarise all available evidence relevant to the Task Force's questions. The evidence was appraised using the Grading of Recommendations, Asses...
