OBJECTIVE To present recommendations for the prevention and screening, recognition, and treatment of the most common conditions resulting in sudden death in organized sports. BACKGROUND Cardiac conditions, head injuries, neck injuries, exertional heat stroke, exertional sickling, asthma, and other factors (eg, lightning, diabetes) are the most common causes of death in athletes. RECOMMENDAT...

The educational system of any country plays a significant role in its sustainable development and progress. However, to fulfill this function there must exist a set of guidelines and policies aimed at such development. The process of setting such a set of guidelines requires a homegrown model for development of the guidelines, and their implementation and supervision. To this end, 14 interviews...

Each medical physics practice guideline represents a policy statement by the AAPM, has undergone a thorough consensus process in which it has been subjected to extensive review, and requires the approval of the Professional Council. The medical physics practice guidelines recognize that the safe and effective use of diagnostic and therapeutic radiology requires specific training, skills, and te...

BACKGROUND Guidelines are the foundation for healthcare planning, delivery and quality improvement but are not consistently implemented. Few guidelines are accompanied by guideline implementation tools (GItools). Users have requested GItools, and developers have requested guidance on how to develop GItools. First it is necessary to characterize GItools. The purpose of this research was to gener...

introduction: disabled-adjusted life year (daly) makes it possible to calculate the time and duration of the disease and its non-fatal consequences along with the time lost due to premature death. this study was aimed to estimate the burden of road traffic accidents (rta) in kermanshah province. methods: to determine the mortality related to road-traffic accidents as well as years of life lost ...

Sepsis is one of the leading and grossly under recognized cause of death in the world. If not recognized early and treated promptly, sepsis leads to septic shock, multiorgan failure and death. This article summarizes recently updated international guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock.

CONTEXT While the adoption of practice guidelines is standardizing many aspects of patient care, ethical dilemmas are occurring because of forgoing life-sustaining therapies in intensive care and are dealt with in diverse ways between different countries and cultures. OBJECTIVES To determine the frequency and types of actual end-of-life practices in European intensive care units (ICUs) and to...

One of the professional standards that must be mastered by medical recorders is coding underlying cause death (UCOD) and using Medical Mortality Data Sheet (MMDS). MMDS along with ICD 10 assisted Guidebook for Determining Cause Death Code According to ICD-10 used determine diagnosis code death. The purpose this study was analyze accuracy determining basic at East Java Province Hajj Hospital. Th...

BACKGROUND Development of a manual or well-defined criterion for prioritizing the topics of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) will help validate and organize this process evermore. This study was conducted to design an applicable manual that would prioritize the CPG topics for family physicians. METHODS This study was a multi-stage method using a qualitative approach that was conducted for ...