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. ...
Fox, N;
Schwartz, D;
Salazar, J. H;
Haut, E. R;
Dahm, P;
Black, J. H;
Brakenridge, S. C;
Como, J. J;
Hendershot, K;
King, D. R;
Maung, A. A;
Moorman, M. L;
Nagy, K;
Petrey, L. B;
Tesoriero, R;
Scalea, T. M;
Fabian, T. C.
BACKGROUND: Blunt traumatic aortic injury (BTAI) is the second most common cause of death in trauma patients. Eighty percent of patients with BTAI will die before reaching a trauma center. The issues of how to diagnose, treat, and manage BTAI were first addressed by the Eastern Association for the Surger...
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 ...
Fiocchi, A;
Pawankar, R;
Cuello-Garcia, C;
Ahn, K;
Al-Hammadi, S;
Agarwal, A;
Beyer, K;
Burks, W;
Canonica, G. W;
Ebisawa, M;
Gandhi, S;
Kamenwa, R;
Lee, B. W;
Li, H;
Prescott, S;
Riva, J. J;
Rosenwasser, L;
Sampson, H;
Spigler, M;
Terracciano, L;
Vereda-Ortiz, A;
Waserman, S;
Yepes-Nuñez, J. J;
Brożek, J. L;
Schünemann, H. J.
BACKGROUND: Prevalence of allergic diseases in infants, whose parents and siblings do not have allergy, is approximately 10% and reaches 20-30% in those with an allergic first-degree relative. Intestinal microbiota may modulate immunologic and inflammatory systemic responses and, thus, influence developm...
Al-Hameed, F. M;
Al-Dorzi, H. M;
Al-Momen, A. M;
Algahtani, F. H;
Al-Zahrani, H. A;
Al-Saleh, K. A;
Al-Sheef, M. A;
Owaidah, T. M;
Alhazzani, W;
Neumann, I;
Wiercioch, W;
Brozek, J;
Schunemann, H;
Akl, E. A.
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) including deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) is commonly encountered in daily clinical practice. After diagnosis, its management frequently carries significant challenges to the clinical practitioner. Treatment of VTE with the inappropriate modality and/or...
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...
