Clinical Practice Recommendations

Clinical practice recommendations for bipolar disorder.

OBJECTIVE To provide clinically relevant evidence-based recommendations for the management of bipolar disorder in adults that are informative, easy to assimilate and facilitate clinical decision-making. METHOD A comprehensive literature review of over 500 articles was undertaken using electronic database search engines (e.g. MEDLINE, PsychINFO and Cochrane reviews). In addition articles, book...

Withdrawal from glucocorticosteroid therapy: clinical practice recommendations.

OBJECTIVE To present an up-to-date and practical review of how to safely withdraw glucocorticosteroid therapy. SOURCES A review of the published literature identified by searching the MEDLINE and LILACS databases (1997-2007), selecting the most representative articles on the subject. SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS Three clinical situations may occur during glucocorticoid withdrawal: adrenal insuff...

Professional Practice Committee for the 2013 Clinical Practice Recommendations

Clinical practice guidelines on menopause: *An executive summary and recommendations

Chair: Meeta Co-Chairs: Leela Digumarti, Neelam Agarwal, Nirmala Vaze, Rashmi Shah, Sonia Malik. Advisory Board: Asha Kapadia, Atul Munshi, Duru Shah, Rama Vaidya, Saroj Srivastava, Sonia Malik, Sunila Khandelwal, Urvashi Prasad Jha. External Review Board: Anita Gadgil, Dayasagar, G R Sridhar, Hema Divakar, P K Shah, Rakesh Sahay, Sanjay Kalra. Resource Faculty: Alka Kumar, Anil Mahajan, Ani...

Investigation of women with postmenopausal uterine bleeding: clinical practice recommendations.

Postmenopausal uterine bleeding is defined as uterine bleeding after permanent cessation of menstruation resulting from loss of ovarian follicular activity. Bleeding can be spontaneous or related to ovarian hormone replacement therapy or to use of selective estrogen receptor modulators (eg, tamoxifen adjuvant therapy for breast carcinoma). Because anovulatory "cycles" with episodes of multimont...