Several international and national guidelines have been proposed for the treatment and prevention of invasive candidiasis/candidemia (IC/C) in both neonatal and pediatric patients. This article is a review of the current guidelines, recommendations, and expert panel consensus of a number of associations and conferences on the prevention and management of IC and candidemia in both pediatric and ...

m edical guidelines are constantly changing and some are even being reversed, as illustrated by a shift in focus from cholesterol numbers to a heart-healthy lifestyle, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation moving from a fixation on maintaining airway and breathing to sustaining circulation. There is no greater example of changing medical advice than what is currently emerging in the allergy field –...

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Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 2004: 30(4) Evidence-based medicine and guidelines Madam I feel it necessary to join the discussion about evidence-based medicine (EBM) and guidelines. I am dismayed about the constant negative attitude towards new contraceptives that are badly needed. I do not believe (serious safety issues aside) that contraceptives should be viewed in e...

Recommendations in the form of clinical practice guidelines are increasingly common. Clinical guidelines are systematically developed statements designed to help administrators, practitioners and patients make decisions about appropriate health care for specific circumstances. In North America, guidelines developed by professional societies, government panels and cooperative groups are frequent...

ion is used to reduce the complexity of a model by including only the parts of the system necessary for the issues being investigated. The goal of abstraction is to prune away unnecessary detail. This enables the modeler to explore, substantiate, or disprove intended behaviors of a system while maintaining the validity of the model [Frantz 95]. Engineers and scientists routinely use abstraction...

purpose: to customize clinical practice guidelines (cpgs) for cataract management for iranian population. methods: first, four cpgs (american academy 2006 and 2011, royal college of ophthalmologists 2010 and canadian ophthalmological society evidence-based clinical practice guidelines 2008) were selected from a number of available cpgs for cataract management in the literature. second, all reco...

to evaluate off-label and off-nccn guidelines uses of antineoplastic drugs in a major chinese hospital.totally 1122 patients were selected from july to december 2011. then, the off-label and off-nccn guidelines uses of antineoplastic drugs were analyzed.in 798 of 1122 patients (71.12%), drugs were used for off-label. in 317 of 1122 patients (28.25%), the drugs were prescribed for off-label and ...

Introduction: The Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran, and similar institutions in many other countries, advises physicians to use current guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute otitis media (AOM). However, there has been no evaluation of the effectiveness of such guidelines or whether physicians in Iran adhere to them. Thus, as laryngologists are the most important g...