BACKGROUND: Non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC), including basal and squamous cell carcinoma, represents the most common malignancy. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this document is to provide guidance to Canadian health care practitioners on NMSC management. METHODS: After conducting a literature review, the group d...
Bressler, B;
Marshall, J. K;
Bernstein, C. N;
Bitton, A;
Jones, J;
Leontiadis, G. I;
Panaccione, R;
Steinhart, A. H;
Tse, F;
Feagan, B.
BACKGROUND & AIMS:: The medical management of ulcerative colitis (UC) has improved through the development of new therapies and novel approaches that optimize existing drugs. Previous Canadian consensus guidelines addressed the management of severe UC in the hospitalized patient. We now present consensu...
GRADE was used to evaluate 9vHPV for routine vaccination of females and males aged 11 or 12 years as well as catch-up vaccination of females aged 13 through 26 years and males aged 13 through 21 years who were not vaccinated previously. Evidence of benefits, harms, values and preferences, and cost-effect...
Conte, M. S;
Pomposelli, F. B;
Clair, D. G;
Geraghty, P. J;
McKinsey, J. F;
Mills, J. L;
Moneta, G. L;
Murad, M. H;
Powell, R. J;
Reed, A. B;
Schanzer, A;
Sidawy, A. N.
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) continues to grow in global prevalence and consumes an increasing amount of resources in the United States health care system. Overall rates of intervention for PAD have been rising steadily in recent years. Changing demographics, evolution of technologies, and an expand...
Kaufman, R. M;
Djulbegovic, B;
Gernsheimer, T;
Kleinman, S;
Tinmouth, A. T;
Capocelli, K. E;
Cipolle, M. D;
Cohn, C. S;
Fung, M. K;
Grossman, B. J;
Mintz, P. D;
O'Malley, B. A;
Sesok-Pizzini, D. A;
Shander, A;
Stack, G. E;
Webert, K. E;
Weinstein, R;
Welch, B. G;
Whitman, G. J;
Wong, E. C;
Tobian, A. A.
BACKGROUND: The AABB (formerly, the American Association of Blood Banks) developed this guideline on appropriate use of platelet transfusion in adult patients. METHODS: These guidelines are based on a systematic review of randomized, clinical trials and observational studies (1900 to September 2014) that...
OBJECTIVE: To formulate clinical practice guidelines for the pharmacological management of obesity. PARTICIPANTS: An Endocrine Society-appointed Task Force of experts, a methodologist, and a medical writer. This guideline was co-sponsored by the European Society of Endocrinology and The Obesity Society. ...
DESCRIPTION: The American College of Physicians (ACP) developed this guideline to present the evidence and provide clinical recommendations based on the comparative effectiveness of risk assessment scales and preventive interventions for pressure ulcers. METHODS: This guideline is based on published lite...
Raghu, Ganesh;
Rochwerg, Bram;
Zhang, Yuan;
Cuello Garcia, Carlos A;
Azuma, Arata;
Behr, Juergen;
Brozek, Jan L;
Collard, Harold R;
Cunningham, William;
Homma, Sakae;
Johkoh, Takeshi;
Martinez, Fernando J;
Myers, Jeffrey;
Protzko, Shandra L;
Richeldi, Luca;
Rind, David;
Selman, Moisés;
Theodore, Arthur;
Wells, Athol U;
Hoogsteden, Henk;
Schünemann, Holger J.
Background: This document updates the American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society/Japanese Respiratory Society/Latin American Thoracic Association guideline on idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis treatment. Methods: Systematic reviews and, when appropriate, meta-analyses were performed to summarize ...
DESCRIPTION: The American College of Physicians (ACP) developed this guideline to present the evidence and provide clinical recommendations based on the comparative effectiveness of treatments of pressure ulcers. METHODS: This guideline is based on published literature on this topic that was identified b...