Neumman, Ignacio;
Izchovic, Ariel;
Aguilar, Ricardo;
Leon, Guillermo;
Casais, Patricia;
Colorio, Cecilia;
Guillermo Esposito, María Cecilia;
Garcia, Pedro;
Meillon-Garia, Luis;
Pereira, Jaime;
Meireless, Suely;
Serrano, Juan;
Tejerina, Mario;
Vera, Felipe;
Karzulovic, Lorena;
Rada, Gabriel;
Schunemann, Holger.
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a common disease in Latin American settings. Implementing international guidelines in Latin American settings requires additional considerations. The purpose of our study was to provide evidence-based guidelines about managing VTE for Latin American patients, clinicians, a...
Kaufman, John A;
Barnes, Geoffrey D;
Chaer, Rabih A;
Cuschieri, Joseph;
Eberhardt, Robert T;
Johnson, Matthew S;
Kuo, William T;
Murin, Susan;
Patel, Sheena;
Rajasekhar, Anita;
Weinberg, Ido;
Gillespie, David L.
To provide evidence-based recommendations on the use of inferior vena cava (IVC) filters in the treatment of patients with or at substantial risk of venous thromboembolic disease. A multidisciplinary expert panel developed key questions to address in the guideline, and a systematic review of the literatu...
Ikizler, T. Alp;
Burrowes, Jerrilynn D;
Byham-Gray, Laura D;
Campbell, Katrina L;
Carrero, Juan-Jesus;
Chan, Winnie;
Fouque, Denis;
Friedman, Allon N;
Ghaddar, Sana;
Goldstein-Fuchs, Jordi D;
Kaysen, George A;
Kopple, Joel D;
Teta, Daniel;
Yee-Moon Wang, Angela;
Cuppari, Lilian.
The National Kidney Foundation’s Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (KDOQI) has provided evidence-based guidelines for nutrition in kidney diseases since 1999. Since the publication of the first KDOQI nutrition guideline, there has been a great accumulation of new evidence regarding the managem...
In 2017 the Veterans Administration (VA) and Department of Defense (DOD) launched development of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders, with the goal of informing and improving patient care. The guideline development process followed GRADE methodology, con...
The COVID-19 pandemic requires to conscientiously weigh ‘‘timely surgical intervention’’ for colorectal cancer against efforts to conserve hospital resources and protect patients and health care providers. Professional societies provided ad-hoc guidance at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic on d...
FitzGerald, John D;
Dalbeth, Nicola;
Mikuls, Ted;
Brignardello‐Petersen, Romina;
Guyatt, Gordon;
Abeles, Aryeh M;
Gelber, Allan C;
Harrold, Leslie R;
Khanna, Dinesh;
King, Charles;
Levy, Gerald;
Libbey, Caryn;
Mount, David;
Pillinger, Michael H;
Rosenthal, Ann;
Singh, Jasvinder A;
Sims, James Edward;
Smith, Benjamin J;
Wenger, Neil S;
Bae, Sangmee Sharon;
Danve, Abhijeet;
Khanna, Puja P;
Kim, Seoyoung C;
Lenert, Aleksander;
Poon, Samuel;
Qasim, Anila;
Sehra, Shiv T;
Sharma, Tarun Sudhir Kumar;
Toprover, Michael;
Turgunbaev, Marat;
Zeng, Linan;
Zhang, Mary Ann;
Turner, Amy S;
Neogi, Tuhina.
To provide guidance for the management of gout, including indications for and optimal use of urate- lowering therapy (ULT), treatment of gout ares, and lifestyle and other medication recommendation Fifty- seven population, intervention, comparator, and outcomes questions were developed, followed by a ...
Manchikanti, Laxmaiah;
Kaye, Alan D;
Soin, Amol;
Albers, Sheri L;
Beall, Douglas;
Latchaw, Richard E;
Sanapati, Mahendra R;
Shah, Shalini;
Atluri, Sairam;
Abd-Elsayed, Alaa;
Abdi, Salahadin;
Aydin, Steve;
Bakshi, Sanjay;
Boswell, Mark;
Buenaventura, Ricardo;
Cabaret, Joseph;
Calodney, Aaron K;
Candido, Kenneth D;
Christo, Paul J;
Cintron, Lynn;
Diwan, Sudhir;
Gharibo, Christopher;
Grider, Jay;
Gupta, Myank;
Haney, Bill;
Harned, Michael E;
Helm II, Standiford;
Jameson, Jessica;
Jha, Sunny;
Kaye, Adam M;
Knezevic, Nebojsa Nick;
Kosanovic, Radomir;
Manchikanti, Maanasa V;
Navani, Annu;
Racz, Gabor;
Pampati, Vidyasagar;
Pasupuleti, Ramarao;
Philip, Cyril;
Rajput, Kartic;
Sehgal, Nalini;
Sudarshan, Gururau;
Vanaparthy, Rachana;
Wargo, Bradley W;
Hirsch, Joshua A.
Chronic axial spinal pain is one of the major causes of significant disability and health care costs, with facet joints as one of the proven causes of pain. To provide evidence-based guidance in performing diagnostic and therapeutic facet joint interventions. The methodology utilized included the develop...
Crouser, Elliott D;
Bonham, Catherine A;
Maier, Lisa A;
Wilson, Kevin C;
Bonham, Catherine A;
Morgenthau, Adam S;
Patterson, Karen C;
Abston, Eric;
Bernstein, Richard C;
Blankstein, Ron;
Chen, Edward S;
Culver, Daniel A;
Drake, Wonder;
Drent, Marjolein;
Gerke, Alicia K;
Ghobrial, Michael;
Govender, Praveen;
Hamzeh, Nabeel;
James, W. Ennis;
Judson, Marc A;
Kellermeyer, Liz;
Knight, Shandra;
Koth, Laura L;
Poletti, Venerino;
Raman, Subha V;
Tukey, Melissa H;
Westney, Gloria E;
Baughman, Robert P.
The diagnosis of sarcoidosis is not standardized but is based on three major criteria: a compatible clinical presentation, finding nonnecrotizing granulomatous inflammation in one or more tissue samples, and the exclusion of alternative causes of granulomatous disease. There are no universally accepted m...
Sammaritano, Lisa R;
Bermas, Bonnie L;
Chakravarty, Eliza E;
Chambers, Christina;
Clowse, Megan E. B;
Lockshin, Michael D;
Marder, Wendy;
Guyatt, Gordon;
Branch, D. Ware;
Buyon, Jill;
Christopher‐Stine, Lisa;
Crow‐Hercher, Rachelle;
Cush, John;
Druzin, Maurice;
Kavanaugh, Arthur;
Laskin, Carl A;
Plante, Lauren;
Salmon, Jane;
Simard, Julia;
Somers, Emily C;
Steen, Virginia;
Tedeschi, Sara K;
Vinet, Evelyne;
White, C. Whitney;
Yazdany, Jinoos;
Barbhaiya, Medha;
Bettendorf, Brittany;
Eudy, Amanda;
Jayatilleke, Arundathi;
Shah, Amit Aakash;
Sullivan, Nancy;
Tarter, Laura L;
Talabi, Mehret Birru;
Turgunbaev, Marat;
Turner, Amy;
D’Anci, Kristen E.
To develop an evidence-based guideline on contraception, assisted reproductive technologies (ART),
fertility preservation with gonadotoxic therapy, use of menopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT), pregnancyassessment and management, and medication use in patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal di...
Maldonado, Fabien;
Danoff, Sonye K;
Wells, Athol U;
Colby, Thomas V;
Ryu, Jay H;
Liberman, Moishe;
Wahidi, Momen M;
Frazer, Lindsy;
Hetzel, Juergen;
Rickman, Otis B;
Herth, Felix J. F;
Poletti, Venerino;
Yarmus, Lonny B.
Transbronchial cryobiopsy (TBC) is increasingly recognized as a potential alternative to surgical lung biopsy (SLB) for the diagnosis of interstitial lung disease (ILD). The goal of this analysis was to examine the literature on TBC as it relates to diagnostic utility and safety to provide evidence-based...
