iran including attractive places and high potential for tourism (external and internal) and investing on tourism industry including social and economic effects leading to constancy of tourism areas. unfortunately, despite high capacity of developing tourism in our country, this capacity has not recognized well and has not utilized for development of iran. the special factors influence on transi...

development of evidence-based clinical guidelines to raising standards of medical care in diabetes is a core element of coping with the global diabetes epidemic. the purpose of this study was to develop a systematic clinical diabetes guideline from the latest scientific evidences and also to localize its recommendations according to regional and cultural needs of our society. searches were cond...

objective: the  implementation of  family  psychoeducation at  the  service delivery level is not without difficulty. few mental health professionals receive special training to work with families especially in iran.   the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of training health professionals in terms of their adherence to protocol. method: eight professionals (general prac...

The Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) is an international scientific and professional organization founded in 1954 to promote the science, technology, and practical application of nuclear medicine. The European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) is a professional nonprofit medical association that facilitates communication worldwide between individuals pursuing clinical and research excelle...

PURPOSE Clinical practice guidelines often contain ambiguities, inconsistencies, and logical errors that hamper implementation of these guidelines in practice. As guideline formalization is useful to verify the logical structure, consistency, and completeness of guidelines, several authors have argued that the formalization of guidelines concurrent with their development may improve their quali...

PLAIN ENGLISH SUMMARY The 2011 standards for trustworthy development of healthcare guidelines published by the United States-based Institute of Medicine recommend that guideline developers involve patients and public representatives in the development process. The standards recommend that (1) patients and the public be actively involved as members on guideline development panels and (2) guideli...

OVERVIEW PROCESS Guideline development process included the following sequential and concurrent steps: K Appointing Work Group members and Evidence Review Team (ERT). K Discussing process, methods, and results. K Developing and refining topics. K Identifying populations, interventions or predictors, and outcomes of interest. K Selecting topics for systematic evidence review. K Standardizing qua...

AIM The overall aim of this project was to develop an evidencebased CPG for the management of dyslipidemia and CKD. The guideline consists of recommendation statements, rationales, and a summary of systematically generated evidence on relevant pre-defined clinical topics. The general guideline development method is described at http://www.kdigo.org/ home/guidelines/development as well as below.