Heart Failure Guidelines are Evidence-Based, but are They Patient-Centered?

[Critical analysis of asthma guidelines: are they really evidence-based?].

Recent years have seen a growing reliance on "evidence-based" guidelines or consensus statements, in which rigorous, explicit methods are used to translate the complex findings of scientific research into operational recommendations for medical care. Various factors can affect the validity of the conclusions they express, however. The purpose of this review was to compare the levels of evidence...

Evidence-based practice guidelines in OHS: are they agree-able?

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the acceptance, validity, reliability and feasibility of the AGREE (Appraisal of Guidelines and REsearch and Evaluation) instrument to assess the quality of evidence-based practice guidelines for occupational physicians. In total, 6 practice guidelines of the Netherlands Society of Occupational Medicine (NVAB) were appraised by 20 occupational health pr...

Multidisciplinary heart failure clinics: are they effective in Canada?

[Biochemical markers in heart failure: are they all the same?].

Rev Esp Cardiol. 2005;58(3):241-3 241 In recent years there has been a huge proliferation in the number of studies examining the diagnostic and prognostic value of the numerous and varied biochemical markers of chronic heart failure. These markers are the mediators or expression of the neurohumoral activation associated with this disease—a consequence of left ventricular dysfunction and its hem...

Biochemical Markers in Heart Failure: Are They All the Same?

Rev Esp Cardiol. 2005;58(3):241-3 241 In recent years there has been a huge proliferation in the number of studies examining the diagnostic and prognostic value of the numerous and varied biochemical markers of chronic heart failure. These markers are the mediators or expression of the neurohumoral activation associated with this disease—a consequence of left ventricular dysfunction and its hem...