What Is New Since the Last (1999) Canadian Asthma Consensus Guidelines?

Controlling asthma. Highlights of the 1999 Canadian Asthma Consensus Report.

2003 Canadian Asthma Consensus Guidelines Executive Summary

BACKGROUND Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma have been published over the last 15 years; however, there has been little focus on issues relating to asthma in childhood. Since the last revision of the 1999 Canadian Asthma Consensus Report, important new studies, particularly in children, have highlighted the need to incorporate new information into the asthma guidelines. The ...

Summary of recommendations from the Canadian Asthma Consensus guidelines, 2003.

A lthough Canadian guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma have been published over the last 15 years, 1–4 there has been little focus on issues relevant to asthma in the young child or on prevention strategies for asthma. Since the last update in 2001, 4 important issues and new studies focusing on asthma in early life have highlighted the need to incorporate the new information ...

Inappropriate drug donations: what has happened since the 1999 WHO guidelines?

CONTEXT Drug donations to developing countries may be part of medical relief operations in acute emergencies, development aid in non-emergency situations, or a corporate donations programme. After a number of documented inappropriate drug donations, the World Health Organization developed the 'Guidelines for Drug Donations', with the second and final version published in 1999. OBJECTIVES We r...

Canadian Consensus Guidelines on Human Papillomavirus

Objective: To promote guidelines for health care providers on the key aspects of HPV infection and the management of HPV-related disease in the new era of vaccine availability. Evidence: Medline and Cochrane databases were searched for articles from January 1995 to March 2007 on subjects related to HPV infection, HPV vaccination, HPV-related disease, Pap testing, and specific consideration of m...