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    Healthcare-associated infections: prevention and control in primary and community care

    This guideline covers preventing and controlling healthcare-associated infections in children, young people and adults in primary and community care settings. It provides a blueprint for the infection prevention and control precautions that should be applied by everyone involved in delivering NHS care an...

    Osteoporosis: assessing the risk of fragility fracture

    This guideline covers assessing the risk of fragility fracture in people aged 18 and over with osteoporosis. It aims to provide guidance on the selection and use of risk assessment tools in the care of adults at risk of fragility fractures in all NHS settings. In February 2017, this guideline was updated...

    Guía de práctica clínica para la atención de casos de dengue en el Perú

    La presente guia de práctica clínica tiene como finalidad contribuir al adecuado manejo clínico de casos de dengue en el Perú y reducir la ocurrencia de formas graves y fallecimientos por esta causa....

    ESPEN guidelines on nutrition in cancer patients

    Clin Nutr; 36 (1), 2017
    Cancers are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and the number of new cases is expected to rise significantly over the next decades. At the same time, all types of cancer treatment, such as surgery, radiation therapy, and pharmacological therapies are improving in sophisticatio...

    Italian prostate biopsies group: 2016 updated guidelines insights

    Anticancer Res; 37 (2), 2017
    AIM: To present a summary of the updated guidelines of the Italian Prostate Biopsies Group following the best recent evidence of the literature. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A systematic review of the new data emerging from 2012-2015 was performed by a panel of 14 selected Italian experts in urology, pathology...

    Oral pharmacologic treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus: a clinical practice guideline update From the American College of Physicians

    Ann. intern. med; 166 (4), 2017
    DESCRIPTION: The American College of Physicians (ACP) developed this guideline to present the evidence and provide clinical recommendations on oral pharmacologic treatment of type 2 diabetes in adults. This guideline serves as an update to the 2012 ACP guideline on the same topic. This guideline is endor...

    Clinical practice guideline for the pharmacologic treatment of chronic insomnia in adults: An American Academy of Sleep Medicine clinical practice guideline

    J. clin. sleep med; 13 (2), 2017
    INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this guideline is to establish clinical practice recommendations for the pharmacologic treatment of chronic insomnia in adults, when such treatment is clinically indicated. Unlike previous meta-analyses, which focused on broad classes of drugs, this guideline focuses on indiv...

    Antimicrobial stewardship: changing risk-related behaviours in the general population

    This guideline covers making people aware of how to correctly use antimicrobial medicines (including antibiotics) and the dangers associated with their overuse and misuse. It also includes measures to prevent and control infection that can stop people needing antimicrobials or spreading infection to othe...

    Cerebral palsy in under 25s: assessment and management

    This guideline covers diagnosing, assessing and managing cerebral palsy in children and young people from birth up to their 25th birthday. It aims to make sure they get the care and treatment they need for the developmental and clinical comorbidities associated with cerebral palsy, so that they can be as...