A lthough clinical practice guidelines offer considerable promise for improving health-care outcomes, significant hurdles exist in implementing guideline recommendations. The conference attendees and invited experts participated in three discussion groups that developed recommendations for assisting the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) in adopting strategies for guideline implementat...

This report summarises the proceedings of a conference organised by the Italian Association of Hospital Cardiologists. The aim was to consider the process by which dietary guidelines (DG) are developed and the quality of evidence underpinning these guidelines, as well as debating whether or not this has resulted in DG that are effective in terms of health improvement. Key points were a caution ...

the nutrient requirements and performance guidelines of management guides are based upon many actual flock results obtained under good environmental and management conditions. in practice and under the prevalent poultry industry situation, through these nutrient levels, iranian farmers cannot attain the performance reported in management guidelines. an estimation of the model of broiler breeder...

Albumin is an expensive drug which imposes relatively high cost on the health care system. Doing ABC analysis in Shahid Motahari Hospital, it was revealed that albumin is categorized in class A. Therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate the pattern of albumin use and the physicians' adherence to evidenced-based albumin guidelines in this large general non-teaching hospital in Shiraz, Iran....

BACKGROUND Effective clinical practice guidelines should improve clinical outcomes, and measures of physician use of clinical practice guidelines should correlate with improved outcomes. This study translates a clinical practice guideline on heart failure into review criteria to measure physician performance and the effectiveness of the clinical practice guideline. METHODS A panel of 11 famil...

BACKGROUND Reference intervals (RIs) for serum IgG subclasses vary greatly among different geographical regions. The present study aimed to establish RIs for serum IgG subclasses in Chinese children, which is essential for interpretation of laboratory findings and making clinical decisions. METHODS This study was performed in accordance with guideline C28-A3, proposed by the International Fed...