La finalidad de esta guía es establecer un referente nacional para orientar la toma de decisiones clínicas basadas en recomendaciones sustentadas en la mejor evidencia disponible. Esta guía pone a disposición del personal del primer, segundo y tercer niveles de atención las recomendaciones basadas e...
The World Health Organization’s comprehensive antenatal care (ANC) guideline WHO recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience was first published in 2016 with the objective of improving the quality of routine health care that all women and adolescent girls receive during pregna...
Since 2007, the guideline development process within the World Health Organization (WHO) has
been overseen by the WHO Guidelines Review Committee (GRC), which follows internationally
recognized standards such as the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development
and Evaluation) approach, to su...
The political declaration at the first United Nations (UN) high-level meeting on tuberculosis (TB) held
on 26 September 2018 included commitments by Member States to four new global targets.3
One of
these targets is to diagnose and treat 40 million people with TB in the 5-year period 2018–2022. The
ap...
This updated recommendation is relevant to all pregnant women and adolescent girls receiving comprehensive antenatal care (ANC) in any healthcare facility or community-based setting, and to their unborn fetuses and newborns. The question was prioritized during the ANC guideline development process. In 20...
Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are an
important cause of severe morbidity, long-term
disability and death among both pregnant women
and their babies, and account for approximately
14% of all maternal deaths worldwide. Improving
care for women around the time of childbirth is
a necessary step towards...
About one fourth of the world’s population is estimated to be infected with the tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, and about 5–10% of those infected develop active TB disease in their lifetime. The risk for active TB disease after infection depends on several factors, the most important being the person’...
Las cepas del bacilo tuberculoso con farmacorresistencia (TB-DR) son más difíciles de tratar que las
farmacosensibles y amenazan el progreso mundial hacia los objetivos establecidos por la Estrategia Fin de
la TB, de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS). Por lo tanto, existe una necesidad imperio...
Honarmand, Kimia;
Um, Kevin John;
Belley-Côté, Emilie P;
Alhazzani, Waleed;
Farley, Chris;
Shannon M, Fernando;
Fiest, Kirsten;
Grey, Donna;
Hajdini RN, Edita;
Herridge, Margaret;
Hrymak, Carmen;
Møller, Morten Hylander;
Kanji, Salmaan;
Lamontagne, François;
Lauzier, François;
Mehta, Sangeeta;
Paunovic, Bojan;
Singal, Rohit;
Tsang, Jennifer Ly;
Wynne, Christine;
Rochwerg, Bram.
Purpose: Hemodynamic management of adults with distributive shock often includes the use of catecholamine-based vasoconstricting medications. It is unclear whether adding vasopressin or vasopressin analogues to catecholamine therapy is beneficial in the management of patients with distributive shock. The...
Desde la publicación de la primera edición de la Guía en 2013, se ha generado mucha información en torno al tratamiento de la colitis ulcerosa, y se han introducido nuevos fármacos y protocolos de actuación. La práctica clínica ha variado substancialmente, lo que justifica nuevas aproximaciones y...
