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    Healthcare-associated infections: prevention and control

    This quality improvement guide was produced by NICE, in partnership with the Health Protection Agency (HPA). Its aim is twofold: to reduce the risk of harm from healthcare-associated infections for patients, staff and visitors; and to reduce the costs associated with preventable infection. The guide aims...

    Caesarean section

    The guideline has not sought to define acceptable CS rates. Rather the purpose of this guideline is to enable healthcare professionals to give appropriate research-based advice to women and their families. This will enable women to make properly informed decisions. Caesarean section (CG132). The guidelin...

    An Official American Thoracic Society/Society of Thoracic Radiology Clinical Practice Guideline: Evaluation of Suspected Pulmonary EmbolismIn Pregnancy

    The diagnostic algorithm for evaluation of suspected pulmonaryembolism (PE) in pregnancy presented in this clinical practiceguideline represents the collective efforts of a multidisciplinarypanel of major medical stakeholders who developed these rec-ommendations using the GRADE system (Figure 1). A major...

    Autism spectrum disorder in under 19s: recognition, referral and diagnosis

    This guideline covers recognising and diagnosing autism spectrum disorder in children and young people from birth up to 19 years. It also covers referral. It aims to improve the experience of children, young people and those who care for them....

    Guía de práctica clínica sobre el manejo del paciente con dispepsia (actualización 2011)

    Su objetivo principal es ayudar a optimizar el proceso diagnostico, identificando a los pacientes con bajo riesgo de tener una patología orgánica grave (fundamentalmente tumoral), los cuales podrían ser manejados de forma segura sin necesidad de realizar pruebas diagnosticas invasivas y/o derivaciones...

    Diagnosis and Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults

    Am. fam. physician; 83 (11), 2011
    Community-acquired pneumonia is diagnosed by clinical features (e.g., cough, fever, pleuritic chest pain) and by lung imaging, usually an infiltrate seen on chest radiography. Initial evaluation should determine the need for hospitalization versus outpatient management using validated mortality or severi...

    Guía de práctica clínica sobre trastorno límite de la personalidad

    El objetivo de esta GPC es mejorar la atención preventiva, terapéutica y rehabilitadora a las personas con trastorno límite de la personalidad (TLP) en los dispositivos asistenciales del Sistema Nacional de Salud (SNS), en particular en los servicios especializados de salud mental. También se pretend...

    Common mental health problems: identification and pathways to care

    This guideline covers care for people aged 18 and over with common mental health problems, with a focus on primary care. It aims to improve access to services for adults and how mental health problems are identified and assessed, and makes recommendations on local care pathways. Management of specific me...

    Type 2 diabetes prevention: population and community-level interventions

    This guideline covers preventing type 2 diabetes in adult populations and communities who are at high risk. It aims to promote a healthy diet and physical activity at community and population level, and recommends how to tailor services for people in ethnic communities and other groups who are particular...