A growing evidence base for management guidelines

Guidelines for revascularization: The evidence base matures

INTRODUCTION Myocardial revascularization procedures continue to represent important treatment options for patients with acute and chronic coronary artery disease (CAD) and also represent a major source of health care expenditures [1,2]. For the past decade, the indications for revascularization in patients with chronic CAD, and the indications for surgical versus percutaneous revascularization...

The evidence base for fat guidelines: a balanced diet

Correspondence to Dr Rahul Bahl; [email protected] Harcombe et al have conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) that would have been available to the regulatory committees in the USA and the UK when guidelines on dietary fat intake were introduced (in 1977 and 1983, respectively). They found no evidence from RCTs to support the introduction ...

Cranial osteopathic manipulative medicine's growing evidence base.

Pre-hospital care after a seizure: Evidence base and United Kingdom management guidelines

PURPOSE Seizures are a common presentation to pre-hospital emergency services and they generate significant healthcare costs. This article summarises the United Kingdom (UK) Ambulance Service guidelines for the management of seizures and explores the extent to which these guidelines are evidence-based. METHODS Summary of the Clinical Practice Guidelines of the UK Joint Royal Colleges Ambulanc...

Acute Pancreatitis : Evidence Base Management

Acute pancreatitis (AP) is an acute inflammatory process of the pancreas, with variable involvement of other regional tissues or remote organ systems. Its overall mortality is approximately 10-20%. There is a wide variation of the disease severity, ranging from mild, self-limiting disease, which is recovered within 3-5 days without morbidity to severe, life-threatening disease which carries mor...