Getting Guidelines Correct

Getting the word out on stroke guidelines.

Getting guidelines into practice: a literature review.

Background Clinical guidelines have the potential to ensure that a research knowledge base underpins practice. Their development nationally and locally has increased dramatically in recent years. The challenge lies in implementing them. This literature review of guideline implementation was conducted to inform the development of implementation strategies for the Royal College of Nursing nationa...

Getting What the Guidelines Stated Matters.

beneficial compensatory response to altered systemic metabolic changes in obesity needs further evaluation. Our results also confirm those obtained for skeletal muscle, with reversal of systemic and muscle metabolic derangements only 9 months after BS (3). The improvement in life-style habits may have also contributed to the late reduction in cardiac steatosis. Compared with usual care, BS is t...

Almost getting with the guidelines: fame or shame?

I am uncomfortable with Vaishnava and Eagle’s satisfaction to observe the clear improvement over time with more than 90% adherence for each performance measure (aspirin within 24 hours, discharge with aspirin and betablockers, patients with low ejection fraction discharged with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors/angiotensin receptor blockers, smoking-cessation counseling, use of lipid-low...

Correct patient, correct side and correct site surgery.