The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) and the American Academy of
Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP) developed this Clinical Practice Guideline on the Management
of Stimulant Use Disorder (hereafter referred to as the Guideline) to provide evidence-based
strategies and standards of care for the trea...
The WHO Guidelines on risk reduction of cognitive decline and dementia provide evidence-based recommendations on lifestyle behaviours and interventions to delay or prevent cognitive decline and dementia. Worldwide, around 50 million people have dementia and, with one new case every three seconds, the num...
Grace, SL;
Turk-Adawi, KI;
Contractor, A;
Atrey, A;
Campbell, N;
Derman, W;
Melo Ghisi, GL;
Oldridge, N;
Sarkar, BK;
Yeo, TJ;
Lopez-Jimenez, F;
Mendis, S;
Oh, P;
Hu, D;
Sarrafzadegan, N.
"OBJECTIVE:
Cardiovascular disease is a global epidemic, which is largely preventable. Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is demonstrated to be cost-effective and efficacious in high-income countries. CR could represent an important approach to mitigate the epidemic of cardiovascular disease in lower-resource s...
Models, Organizational,
Health Resources,
Health Care Costs,
Activities of Daily Living,
Consensus,
Cardiovascular Diseases/diagnosis,
Cardiovascular Diseases,
Exercise Therapy,
Delivery of Health Care,
Cost-Benefit Analysis,
Patient Education as Topic,
Return to Work,
Risk Reduction Behavior,
Self Care,
Cardiovascular Diseases/therapy
DESCRIPTION: In December 2014, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) approved a joint clinical practice guideline for the management of dyslipidemia for cardiovascular disease risk reduction in adults. This synopsis summarizes the major recommendations. METHODS...
