Legault, K;
Schunemann, H;
Hillis, C;
Yeung, C;
Akl, E. A;
Carrier, M;
Cervera, R;
Crowther, M;
Dentali, F;
Erkan, D;
Espinosa, G;
Khamashta, M;
Meerpohl, J. J;
Moffat, K;
O'Brien, S;
Pengo, V;
Rand, J. H;
Rodriguez Pinto, I;
Thom, L;
Iorio, A.
Background The McMaster RARE-Bestpractices project group selected the catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPS) for a pilot exercise in guideline development for a rare disease. Objectives The objectives of this exercise were to provide a proof of principle that guidelines can be developed for rare d...
Brożek, J. L;
Bousquet, J;
Agache, I;
Agarwal, A;
Bachert, C;
Bosnic-Anticevich, S;
Brignardello-Petersen, R;
Canonica, G. W;
Casale, T;
Chavannes, N. H;
Correia de Sousa, J;
Cruz, A. A;
Cuello-Garcia, C. A;
Demoly, P;
Dykewicz, M;
Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta, I;
Florez, I. D;
Fokkens, W;
Fonseca, J;
Hellings, P. W;
Klimek, L;
Kowalski, S;
Kuna, P;
Laisaar, K. T;
Larenas-Linnemann, D. E;
Lodrup Carlsen, K. C;
Manning, P. J;
Meltzer, E;
Mullol, J;
Muraro, A;
O'Hehir, R;
Ohta, K;
Panzner, P;
Panzner, P;
Papadopoulos, N;
Park, H. S;
Passalacqua, G;
Pawankar, R;
Price, D;
Riva, J. J;
Roldán, Y;
Ryan, D;
Sadeghirad, B;
Samolinski, B;
Schmid-Grendelmeier, P;
Sheikh, A;
Togias, A;
Valero, A;
Valiulis, A;
Valovirta, E;
Ventresca, M;
Wallace, D;
Waserman, S;
Wickman, M;
Wiercioch, W;
Yepes-Nuñez, J. J;
Zhang, L;
Zhang, Y;
Zidarn, M;
Zuberbier, T;
Schünemann, H. J.
BACKGROUND: Allergic rhinitis (AR) affects 10% to 40% of the population. It reduces quality of life and school and work performance and is a frequent reason for office visits in general practice. Medical costs are large, but avoidable costs associated with lost work productivity are even larger than thos...
Darzi, A;
Harfouche, M;
Arayssi, T;
Alemadi, S;
Alnaqbi, K. A;
Badsha, H;
Al Balushi, F;
Elzorkany, B;
Halabi, H;
Hamoudeh, M;
Hazer, W;
Masri, B;
Omair, M. A;
Uthman, I;
Ziade, N;
Singh, J. A;
Christiansen, R;
Tugwell, P;
Schünemann, H. J;
Akl, E. A.
BACKGROUND: It has been hypothesized that adaptation of health practice guidelines to the local setting is expected to improve their uptake and implementation while cutting on required resources. We recently adapted the published American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) treatment ...
Chest; 141 (2,supl), 2012
The Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines differs substantially from the prior versions both in process and in content. In this introduction, we describe some of the differences and the rationale for t...
Bates, S. M;
Jaeschke, R;
Stevens, S. M;
Goodacre, Wells;
Stevenson, M. D;
Kearon, C;
Schunemann, H. J;
Crowther, M;
Pauker, S. G;
Makdissi, R;
Guyatt, G. H.
Chest; 141 (2,supl), 2012
BACKGROUND: Objective testing for DVT is crucial because clinical assessment alone is unreliable and the consequences of misdiagnosis are serious. This guideline focuses on the identification of optimal strategies for the diagnosis of DVT in ambulatory adults. METHODS: The methods of this guideline follo...
Guyatt, G. H;
Norris, S. L;
Schulman, S;
Hirsh, J;
Eckman, M. H;
Akl, E. A;
Crowther, M;
Vandvik, P. O;
Eikelboom, J. W;
McDonagh, M. S;
Lewis, S. Z;
Gutterman, D. D;
Cook, D. J;
Schünemann, H. J.
Chest; 141 (2,supl), 2012
BACKGROUND: To develop the Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: ACCP Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines (AT9), the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) assembled a panel of clinical experts, information scientists, decision scientists, and systematic review and gui...
Jacobi, J;
Bircher, N;
Krinsley, J;
Agus, M;
Braithwaite, S. S;
Deutschman, C;
Freire, A. X;
Geehan, D;
Kohl, B;
Nasraway, S. A;
Rigby, M;
Sands, K;
Schallom, L;
Taylor, B;
Umpierrez, G;
Mazuski, J;
Schunemann, H.
Objective: To evaluate the literature and identify important aspects of insulin therapy that facilitate safe and effective infusion therapy for a defined glycemic end point. Methods: Where available, the literature was evaluated using Grades of Recommendation, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRA...
Since publication of the seventh American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) supplement on antithrombotic and thrombolytic therapy, the results of clinical trials have provided important new information on the management of thromboembolic disorders, and the science of developing recommendations has advan...
