Lehrnbecher, T;
Phillips, R;
Alexander, S;
Alvaro, F;
Carlesse, F;
Fisher, B;
Hakim, H;
Santolaya, M;
Castagnola, E;
Davis, B. L;
Dupuis, L. L;
Gibson, F;
Groll, A. H;
Gaur, A;
Gupta, A;
Kebudi, R;
Petrilli, S. L;
Steinbach, W. J;
Villarroel, M;
Zaoutis, T Sung.
To develop an evidence-based guideline for the empiric management of pediatric fever and neutropenia (FN). The International Pediatric Fever and Neutropenia Guideline Panel is a multidisciplinary and multinational group composed of experts in pediatric oncology and infectious disease as well as a patient...
This guideline covers preventing, identifying and managing neutropenic sepsis in children, young people and adults receiving treatment for cancer in the community and in secondary and tertiary care. It aims to reduce the risk of infection in people with neutropenia (low number of white blood cells) who a...
This guideline covers diagnosing and managing peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in people aged 18 and over. Rapid changes in diagnostic methods, endovascular treatments and vascular services associated with new specialties in surgery and interventional radiology have resulted in considerable uncertainty ...
This guideline covers how to identify adults at high risk of type 2 diabetes. It aims to remind practitioners that age is no barrier to being at high risk of, or developing, the condition. It also aims to help them provide those at high risk with an effective and appropriate intensive lifestyle-change pr...
Bates, S. M;
Jaeschke, R;
Stevens, S. M;
Goodacre, Wells;
Stevenson, M. D;
Kearon, C;
Schunemann, H. J;
Crowther, M;
Pauker, S. G;
Makdissi, R;
Guyatt, G. H.
Chest; 141 (2,supl), 2012
BACKGROUND: Objective testing for DVT is crucial because clinical assessment alone is unreliable and the consequences of misdiagnosis are serious. This guideline focuses on the identification of optimal strategies for the diagnosis of DVT in ambulatory adults. METHODS: The methods of this guideline follo...
The guideline covers diagnosing, treating and managing epilepsy and seizures in children, young people and adults in primary and secondary care. It offers best practice advice on managing epilepsy to improve health outcomes so that people with epilepsy can fully participate in daily life....
In 2004, the World Health Organization (WHO) published an interim policy on collaborative TB/HIV activities
in response to demand from countries for immediate guidance on actions to decrease the dual burden of
tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The term interim was used because the...
Following new findings from recently published epidemiological studies, the World Health
Organization (WHO) convened a technical consultation regarding hormonal contraception
and HIV acquisition, progression and transmission. It was recognized that this issue was
likely to be of particular concern in cou...
