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    Epilepsies: diagnosis and management

    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....

    Guía de práctica clínica para el cuidado de personas con úlceras por presión o riesgo de padecerlas

    Los objetivos de esta GPC son: Contribuir a la disminución de la prevalencia e incidencia de UPP en la población de la Comunidad Valenciana; Aumentar la calidad de los cuidados prestados a las personas con UPP, así como a aquellas con riesgo de desarrollarlas; Promover un estudio epidemiológico descr...

    WHO policy on collaborative TB/HIV activities: guidelines for national programmes and other stakeholders

    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...

    Hormonal contraception and HIV: technical statement

    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...

    Tumores primarios del sistema nervioso central en personas de 15 años o más

    Objetivo general: generar recomendaciones basadas en la mejor evidencia disponible acerca del manejo de personas con tumores primarios del sistema nervioso central o que hayan sido tratados por ello. Objetivos específicos: personas con tumores primarios del sistema nervioso central o que hayan sido trat...

    Self-harm in over 8s: long-term management

    This guideline covers the longer-term psychological treatment and management of self-harm in people aged 8 and over. It aims to improve the quality of care and support for people who self harm and covers both single and recurrent episodes of self-harm. This guideline follows on from self-harm in over 8s:...

    An Official American Thoracic Society/Society of Thoracic Radiology Clinical Practice Guideline: Evaluation of Suspected Pulmonary EmbolismIn Pregnancy

    The diagnostic algorithm for evaluation of suspected pulmonaryembolism (PE) in pregnancy presented in this clinical practiceguideline represents the collective efforts of a multidisciplinarypanel of major medical stakeholders who developed these rec-ommendations using the GRADE system (Figure 1). A major...

    Autism spectrum disorder in under 19s: recognition, referral and diagnosis

    This guideline covers recognising and diagnosing autism spectrum disorder in children and young people from birth up to 19 years. It also covers referral. It aims to improve the experience of children, young people and those who care for them....

    Guía de práctica clínica sobre el manejo del paciente con dispepsia (actualización 2011)

    Su objetivo principal es ayudar a optimizar el proceso diagnostico, identificando a los pacientes con bajo riesgo de tener una patología orgánica grave (fundamentalmente tumoral), los cuales podrían ser manejados de forma segura sin necesidad de realizar pruebas diagnosticas invasivas y/o derivaciones...

    Diagnosis and Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults

    Am. fam. physician; 83 (11), 2011
    Community-acquired pneumonia is diagnosed by clinical features (e.g., cough, fever, pleuritic chest pain) and by lung imaging, usually an infiltrate seen on chest radiography. Initial evaluation should determine the need for hospitalization versus outpatient management using validated mortality or severi...