The American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) is a multidisciplinary association dedicated to advancing the safe and effective use of ultrasound in medicine through professional and public education, research, development of guidelines, and accreditation. To promote this mission, the AIUM is pleased to publish this AIUM Practice Guideline for the Use of Ultrasound to Guide Vascular Ac...

The first clinical practice guidelines for the assessment and management of asthma were published over 20 years ago in New Zealand and Australia. During the same period, British and Scottish groups were collaborating on a United Kingdom version of asthma guidelines. Shortly after the introduction of the New Zealand and Canadian guidelines, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the Un...

Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) have been promulgated by a variety of sources with differing goals: professional societies, state and federal governmental bodies, third-party payers such as insurers and HMOs, and hospitals. Compliance rates by practitioners are modest at best so that their use as standards of care for "usual and customary" practice is questionable. Some states are experimen...

Health information technology (HIT) can address important problems in clinical care and biomedical research. These problems include lack of compliance with clinical practice guidelines [1], insufficient use of preventative medicine services [2] and numerous impediments to clinical/translational research [3]. However, front-line patient care information systems that can influence care may worsen...

conclusions the evidence in the discussed topics was limited and controversial. this report is important because it exposes the current knowledge gap in head trauma studies in iran. evidence acquisition the guidelines were appraised using the appraisal of guidelines for research and evaluation (agree) instrument. all key recommendations were reviewed by 14 prominent iranian neurosurgeons; level...

abstract:ramadan fasting has received a lot of attention given the long periods of fasting and the theoretically imposed risk in patients with diabetes. many recommendations have been published, however physician’s knowledge and practices did not comply with these recommendations in many occasions. objectives: to explore physician’s opinions and attitudes towards management of diabetes during r...

Information systems (IS) scholars have proposed guidelines for interpretive, mixed methods, and design science research in IS. Because many of these also been suggested evaluating what good or rigorous is, they may be used as a checklist the review process. In this paper, we raise question: To extent do offer evidence that can to evaluate quality research. We argue use is if there compelling le...