This guideline covers identifying and managing familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), a specific type of high cholesterol that runs in the family, in children, young people and adults. It aims to help identify people at increased risk of coronary heart disease as a result of having FH....
The first module in the Cancer Control series, Planning, provides a template for cancer control planning and progamme implementation. The recommended framework draws on earlier WHO work in this field, the principles of which are set out in National cancer control programmes, policies and managerial guide...
The IMCI chart booklet is a guide for first-level health workers on assessment, management and follow up of common childhood illnesses including pneumonia, malaria, diarrhoea, ear infections, severe malnutrition and measles. The modified IMCI chart booklet for high HIV settings addresses the same problem...
In June 2005, WHO’s Strategic, Technical and Advisory Group on TB approved the
new Stop TB Strategy, which was endorsed by the Stop TB Partnership Coordinating
Board in November 2005. The new Strategy was designed to deal with challenges and obstacles that slow the progress in achieving tuberculosis co...
Since the publication of the Tuberculosis handbook by the World Health Organization in 1998, important changes have taken place in the global context in which control of tuberculosis (TB) is carried out. Firstly, the DOTS strategy has been adopted by virtually all countries during the past decade, althou...
Torres, Antoni;
Niederman, Michael S;
Chastre, Jean;
Ewig, Santiago;
Fernandez-Vandellos, Patricia;
Hanberger, Hakan;
Kollef, Marin;
Bassi, Gianluigi Li;
Luna, Carlos M;
Martin-Loeches, Ignacio;
Paiva, J. Artur;
Read, Robert C;
Rigau, David;
Timsit, Jean François;
Welte, Tobias;
Wunderink, Richard.
Nosocomial pneumonia is a frequent infection that is classified into two groups [1]: HAP, which develops
in hospitalised patients after 48 h of admission, and does not require (but may include) artificial
ventilation at the time of diagnosis [2, 3]; and VAP, which occurs in intensive care unit (ICU) pati...
