Adherence or compliance, in the context of medical treatment, refers to how well a patient follows and sticks to the management plan developed with her/his health care provider, which may include pharmacologic agents as well as changes in lifestyle. Adherence is of great concern in asymptomatic conditions such as hypertension, where lack of control may have serious ramifications including end o...

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This article describes the make-up and activities of the Technical Vaccination Committee (CTV) that serves as the National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG) in France. Comprised of a variety of technical experts, the CTV makes recommendations concerning vaccination. The committee functions as an independent expert advisory committee, and its proceedings are confidential, although it...

ALBANY | New York state, in collaboration with several other states and Columbia University, is reviving an advisory committee on climate change that President Donald Trump’s administration disbanded. The move is aimed at helping local governments prepare for global warming. The federal advisory committee had been slated to provide guidance based on scientific findings of the latest National Cl...

BMJ VOLUME 325 28 SEPTEMBER 2002 bmj.com Staff at the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Drug Safety wanted the United States to consider following the United Kingdom’s policy of reducing the public’s ease of access to paracetamol to try to reduce the number of deaths from overdose, a concern in both these countries. But the office’s views never reached the FDA’s nonprescription drugs adv...

INTRODUCTION To address suboptimal influenza vaccination rates among health care workers, the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recently issued recommendations designed to increase the number of health care workers vaccinated against influenza. The purpose of the present study was to determine how widely these recommen...

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Background DAMOCLES established a Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) Charter which has been widely used for RCTs. The DMC is typically advisory and makes recommendations to another executive body; the Trial Steering Committee (TSC). Despite the executive role of the TSC over the DMC, the CONSORT statement doesn’t explicitly require reporting of TSC activity although TSCs are included as an example...

Like the National Commission and the President's Commission, the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments was formed to carry out specific ethical tasks. Yet the committee also had an "openness" mission, a charge to investigate allegations that the U.S. government secretly exposed Americans to environmental releases of radiation. Eighteen months later- and after sixteen public meetings...