Evaluation and management guidelines

Documentation guidelines for evaluation and management services.

Guidelines for the evaluation and management of status epilepticus.

Status epilepticus (SE) treatment strategies vary substantially from one institution to another due to the lack of data to support one treatment over another. To provide guidance for the acute treatment of SE in critically ill patients, the Neurocritical Care Society organized a writing committee to evaluate the literature and develop an evidence-based and expert consensus practice guideline. L...

Cancer-related fatigue: guidelines for evaluation and management.

Fatigue is a highly prevalent condition among cancer patients. Although most cancer patients report that fatigue is a major obstacle to maintaining normal daily activities and quality of life, it is seldom assessed and treated in clinical practice. Few studies have explored its epidemiology, possible etiologies, or management. Cancer-related fatigue, which recently was accepted as a diagnosis i...

Guidelines of guidelines: a review of urethral stricture evaluation, management, and follow-up

BACKGROUND Our objective is to report a comparative review of recently released guidelines for the evaluation, management, and follow-up of urethral stricture disease. METHODS This is an analysis of the American Urologic Association (AUA) and Société Internationale d'Urologie (SIU) guidelines on urethral stricture. Strength of recommendations is stratified according to letter grade that corre...

Practice management guidelines for the evaluation of blunt abdominal trauma: the East practice management guidelines work group.

I. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Evaluation of patients who have sustained blunt abdominal trauma (BAT) may pose a significant diagnostic challenge to the most seasoned trauma surgeon. Blunt trauma produces a spectrum of injury from minor, single-system injury to devastating, multisystem trauma. Trauma surgeons must have the ability to detect the presence of intra-abdominal injuries across this enti...