BACKGROUND: Older people suffering from dementia are at increased risk of malnutrition due to various nutritional problems, and the question arises which interventions are effective in maintaining adequate nutritional intake and nutritional status in the course of the disease. It is of further interest w...
The National Kidney Foundation's Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (KDOQI) has provided evidence-based guidelines for all stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and related complications since 1997. The 2015 update of the KDOQI Clinical Practice Guideline for Hemodialysis Adequacy is intended to...
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this document is to generate a practice guideline for the management and treatment of symptoms of the menopause. PARTICIPANTS: The Treatment of Symptoms of the Menopause Task Force included six experts, a methodologist, and a medical writer, all appointed by The Endocrine Soci...
Abramowicz, D;
Cochat, P;
Claas, FH;
Heemann, U;
Pascual, J;
Dudley, C;
Harden, P;
Hourmant, M;
Maggiore, U;
Salvadori, M;
Spasovski, G;
Squifflet, JP;
Steiger, J;
Torres, A;
Viklicky, O;
Zeier, M;
Vanholder, R;
Van Biesen, W;
Nagler, E.
The European Best Practice Guideline group (EBPG) issued guidelines on the evaluation and selection of kidney donor and kidney transplant candidates, as well as post-transplant recipient care, in the year 2000 and 2002. The new European Renal Best Practice board decided in 2009 that these guidelines need...
Werner, R. N;
Stockfleth, E;
Connolly, S. M;
Correia, O;
Erdmann, R;
Foley, P;
Gupta, A. K;
Jacobs, A;
Kerl, H;
Lim, H. W;
Martin, G;
Paquet, M;
Pariser, D. M;
Rosumeck, S;
Röwert-Huber, H. J;
Sahota, A;
Sangueza, O. P;
Shumack, S;
Sporbeck, B;
Swanson, N. A;
Torezan, L;
Nast, A.
BACKGROUND: Actinic keratosis (AK) is a frequent health condition attributable to chronic exposure to ultraviolet radiation. Several treatment options are available and evidence based guidelines are missing. OBJECTIVES: The goal of these evidence- and consensus-based guidelines was the development of tre...
Two serogroup B meningococcal (MenB) vaccines have recently been licensed for use in the U.S. (MenB-FHbp [Trumenba, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Inc.] and MenB-4C [Bexsero, Novartis Vaccines]). Both vaccines were approved for use in persons aged 10 through 25 years. MenB-FHbp was licensed as a three-dose serie...
Travers, A. H;
Perkins, G. D;
Berg, R. A;
Castren, M;
Considine, J;
Escalante, R;
Gazmuri, R. J;
Koster, R. W;
Lim, S. H;
Nation, K. J;
Olasveengen, T. M;
Sakamoto, T;
Sayre, M. R;
Sierra, A;
Smyth, M. A;
Stanton, D;
Vaillancourt, C.
This review comprises the most extensive literature search and evidence evaluation to date on the most important international BLS interventions, diagnostics, and prognostic factors for cardiac arrest victims. It reemphasizes that the critical lifesaving steps of BLS are (1) prevention, (2) immediate rec...
Notrica, D. M;
Eubanks, J. W;
Tuggle, D. W;
Maxson, R. T;
Letton, R. W;
Garcia, N. M;
Alder, A. C;
Lawson, K. A;
St Peter, S. D;
Megison, S;
Garcia-Filion, P.
BACKGROUND: Nonoperative management of liver and spleen injury should be achievable for more than 95% of children. Large national studies continue to show that some regions fail to meet these benchmarks. Simultaneously, current guidelines recommend hospitalization for injury grade + 2 (in days). A new tr...
A systematic literature review and meta-analyses (where appropriate) were performed and the GRADE approach was used to update the previous American Academy of Sleep Medicine Practice Parameters on the treatment of intrinsic circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders. Available data allowed for positive endors...
Dejaco, C;
Singh, Y. P;
Perel, P;
Hutchings, A;
Camellino, D;
Mackie, S;
Abril, A;
Bachta, A;
Balint, P;
Barraclough, K;
Bianconi, L;
Buttgereit, F;
Carsons, S;
Ching, D;
Cid, M;
Cimmino, M;
Diamantopoulos, A;
Docken, W;
Duftner, C;
Fashanu, B;
Gilbert, K;
Hildreth, P;
Hollywood, J;
Jayne, D;
Lima, M;
Maharaj, A;
Mallen, C;
Martinez-Taboada, V;
Maz, M;
Merry, S;
Miller, J;
Mori, S;
Neill, L;
Nordborg, E;
Nott, J;
Padbury, H;
Pease, C;
Salvarani, C;
Schirmer, M;
Schmidt, W;
Spiera, R;
Tronnier, D;
Wagner, A;
Whitlock, M;
Matteson, E. L;
Dasgupta, B.
Therapy for polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) varies widely in clinical practice as international recommendations for PMR treatment are not currently available. In this paper, we report the 2015 European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR)/American College of Rheumatology (ACR) recommendations for the managemen...
