National audit of continence care: adherence to National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Guidance in older versus younger adults with faecal incontinence

National audit of continence care: adherence to National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance in older versus younger adults with faecal incontinence.

BACKGROUND previous UK National Audits of Continence Care showed low rates of assessment and treatment of faecal incontinence (FI) in older people. OBJECTIVE the 2009 audit assessed adherence to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines on management of FI and compared care in older versus younger patients. METHODS fifteen older (65+) and 15 younger (18-65) patien...

The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE).

In discussions on the development of the institutional framework for decisions on the benefit package of social health insurance in Germany, the English National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) is considered as either a good or a bad example for reform. According to this study, the procedures and criteria applied by NICE for making health care coverage decisions are legitimate. Procedu...

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

NICE to HELP: operationalizing National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines to improve clinical practice.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the United Kingdom developed guidelines for the diagnosis, prevention, and management of delirium in July 2010 that included 10 recommendations for delirium prevention. The Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP) is a targeted multicomponent strategy that has proven effective and cost-effective at preventing functional and cognitive...

National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidance: too NICE to glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors?

The arrival of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) in 1999 was greeted with suspicion by many clinicians who regarded it as the beginning of an era of overt health care rationing. From a cardiological perspective, this has not proved to be the case. The guidelines issued on implantable defibrillators, intracoronary stents, and glyco-protein (GP) IIb/IIIa inhibitors have been l...