The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is the principal provider of information about the evidence relating to effectiveness and cost-effectiveness in healthcare in the National Health Service of England and Wales. NICE regards quality as primarily to do with effectiveness, safety and the patient experience. In this paper we comment on the quality of evidence regarding...

Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, Ireland Community Nutrition and Dietetic Service, Health Service Executive, North County Dublin, Ireland Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, Ireland Trinity Centre, St James Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland NR Consulting, 3 Lumiera, Kilmacanogue, Co., Wicklow, Ireland Irish Society for Clinical ...

lymphatic filariasis (lf), a nematode disease transmitted by arthropod vectors, is repeatedly reported in immigrant population. this disease is not endemic in iran; however, different species of mosquitoes, capable of transmission of parasite mi-crofilaria, are distributed in the country. hereby, incidental detection of an im-ported case of lf due to wuchereria bancrofti in an indian worker in ...

OBJECTIVE Hispanic Americans and American Indians face significant health disparities compared with White Americans. Research suggests that stereotyping of minority patients by members of the medical community is an important antecedent of race and ethnicity-based health disparities. This work has primarily focused on physicians' perceptions, however, and little research has examined the stereo...

Thr prevalence of HLA-DR antigens was determined in a group of white patients with rheumatoid arthritis, similar patients originating from the Indian subcontinent, and corresponding controls. Rheumatoid arthritis was found to be highly associated with DR4 in the white patients but with DR1 in the Indian patients. These results raise the possibility that the DR antigens themselves do not play a ...

Background: Pediatric bronchial asthma is associated with considerable morbidity. The study was carried out to examine the association of Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA)- Class II with the disease as we found no similar study on Asian Indian population. Objective: To define the HLA-Class II antigens in Asian Indian pediatric patients with asthma. Methods: A total of 103 children with asthma and 1...

INTRODUCTION Using the Indian and rest of world (ROW) injection technique questionnaire (ITQ) data, we address key insulin injection complications. METHODS In 2015 we conducted an ITQ survey throughout India involving 1011 patients. Indian values were compared with those from 41 other countries participating in the ITQ, known here as ROW. RESULTS More than a quarter of Indian insulin users ...