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    Methodology for the development of antithrombotic therapy and prevention of thrombosis guidelines: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines

    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...

    Guidelines for the use of an insulin infusion for the management of hyperglycemia in critically ill patients

    Crit. care med; 40 (12), 2012
    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...

    Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) for HPV Vaccine for Males

    MMWR recomm. rep; 60 (50), 2011
    Evidence of benefits, harms, values and preferences, and cost-effectiveness were reviewed in accordance with GRADE methods (Ahmed F, et al). The primary policy question was “Should HPV4 be recommended for routine use in 11-12 year old boys.” The benefits considered included prevention of genital wart...

    CDC Recommendation for Hepatitis B Vaccination among Adults with Diabetes: Grading of Scientific Evidence in Support of Key Recommendations

    MMWR recomm. rep; 60 (50), 2011
    Evidence of benefits, harms, values and preferences, and cost effectiveness were reviewed in accordance with GRADE methods to determine the recommendation category (Ahmed F, Temte JL, Campos-Outcalt D, Schünemann HJ; for the ACIP Evidence Based Recommendations Work Group (EBRWG). Methods for developing ...

    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...

    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...

    KDIGO clinical practice guideline for the care of kidney transplant recipients: a summary

    Kidney int; 77 (4), 2010
    The 2009 Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) clinical practice guideline on the monitoring, management, and treatment of kidney transplant recipients is intended to assist the practitioner caring for adults and children after kidney transplantation. The guideline development process followe...

    Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy

    Chest; 133 (6), 2008
    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...

    SIE, SIES, GITMO revised guidelines for the management offollicular lymphoma

    Am. j. hematol; 90 (1), 2005
    By using the GRADE system, we updated the guidelines for management of follicular cell lymphoma issuedin 2006 from SIE, SIES, and GITMO group. We confirmed our recommendation to frontline chemoimmuno-therapy in patients with Stage III–IV disease and/or high tumor burden. Maintenance rituximab was alsor...

    The Quality of Medical Care in the United States: A Report on the Medicare Program: the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care 1999

    The United States leads the world, by a substantial measure, in its monetary commitment to medical care. If, as we have long believed, more care is better care, then American medicine must surely be the best in the world. But where is the “best” of American medicine? Previous editions of the Atlas h...