The Practice Guidelines Committee of the American Society of Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT) partnered with its Transplant Infectious Disease Special Interest Group (TID-SIG) to update its 2009 compendium-style infectious disease guidelines for hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). A new...
Clinical question: What is the role of medical cannabis or cannabinoids for people living with chronic pain due to cancer or non-cancer causes?
Current practice: Chronic pain is common and distressing and associated with considerable socioeconomic burden globally. Medical cannabis is increasingly used t...
Low-dose chest CT screening for lung cancer has become a standard of care in the United States, in large part because of the results of the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST). Additional evidence supporting the net benefit of low-dose chest CT screening for lung cancer, and increased experience in mini...
Low-dose chest CT screening for lung cancer has become a standard of care in the United States, in large part because of the results of the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST). Additional evidence supporting the net benefit of low-dose chest CT screening for lung cancer, and increased experience in mini...
Rajamani, Arvind;
Galarza, Laura;
Sanfilippo, Filippo;
Wong, Adrian;
Goffi, Alberto;
Tuinman, Pieter;
Mayo, Paul;
Arntfield, Robert;
Fisher, Richard;
Huang, Stephen.
With the paucity of high-quality studies on longitudinal basic critical care echocardiography (BCCE) training, expert-opinion guidelines have guided BCCE training. However, existing guidelines lack precise detail due to methodological flaws during guideline-development. To formulate methodologically robu...
Stevens, Scott;
Woller, Scott;
Kreuziger, Lisa;
Bounameaux, Henri;
Doerschug, Kevin;
Geersing, Geert-Jan;
Huisman, Menno;
Kearon, Clive;
King, Christopher;
Knighton, Andrew;
Moores, Lisa.
This is the second update to the 9th edition of these guidelines. We provide recommendations on 17 PICO (Patients, Interventions, Comparators, Outcomes) questions, four of which have not been addressed previously. We generate strong and weak recommendations based on high, moderate, and low-certainty evid...
This is the 2nd update to the 9th edition of these guidelines. We provide recommendations on 17 PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparator, Outcome) questions, four of which have not been addressed previously. We generate strong and weak recommendations based on high-, moderate-, and low-certainty eviden...
Sultan, Shahnaz;
Siddique, Shazia;
Singh, Siddarth;
Altayar, Osama;
Caliendo, Angela;
Davitkov, Perica;
Feurstein, Joseph;
Kaul, Vivek;
Lim, Joseph;
Mustafa, Reem;
Falck-Ytter, Yngve;
Inadomi, John.
This guideline provides updated recommendations on the role of preprocedure testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) in individuals undergoing endoscopy in the post-vaccination period and replaces the prior guideline from the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) (...
This clinical practice guideline is a focused update on management of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) in adults specifically addressing the use of fidaxomicin and bezlotoxumab for the treatment of CDI. This guideline was developed by a multidisciplinary panel representing the Infectious Diseases...
The incidence of primary malignant bone tumors is low, and clinical cognition is insufficient. The establishment of diagnostic criteria is of great significance for prognosis of tumors. National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) regularly publishes "Clinical Practice Guidelines for Bone Tumors" to summ...
