National Institute for Clinical Excellence: NICE works

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...

Is National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) guideline a nice guideline?

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...

The National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines for caesarean sections: implications for the anaesthetist.

INTRODUCTION The bodies involved; Background; Aims of the guidelines; Evidence and grading of recommendations SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS AFFECTING ANAESTHETIC PRACTICE Provision of information and consent Classification of urgency of caesarean section Planned caesarean section Factors in intrapartum care affecting likelihood of caesarean section Factors with no influence on caesarean section ra...

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...