AIM The aim of this study was to describe the impact of the Traumatic Brain Injury management guideline introduction in Hungary. MATERIAL AND METHODS Hospital discharge records (HDR) including age, gender, codes of interventions applied, ICD codes of diagnosed disorders of patients admitted between 01/01/2004 and 31/12/2010 with diagnosis of intracranial injury (S06 by ICD10) from every inpat...

Many recent experimental studies have demonstrated that the deposition of self-assembled monolayers on a metal electrode can significantly modulate its work function and hence charge injection properties in organic-based devices. In this context, we model here by means of Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations the deposition of long saturated and partially fluorinated alkanethiol chains o...

This guideline aims to provide comprehensive information regarding the management of infections caused by Chlamydia trachomatis in European countries. The recommendations contain important information for physicians and laboratory staff working with sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and/or STI-related issues. Individual European countries may be required to make minor national adjustments ...

A well produced evidence based guideline has been developed in response to a national audit that demonstrated wide variations in the performance of sweat tests. Accurate and reliable sweat test results will be particularly important with the advent of neonatal screening. The guideline recommendations include the collection and analysis of sweat samples, and interpretation of results. It emphasi...

http://std.sagepub.com/content/24/8/593 The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/0956462413482811 2013 24: 593 originally published online 25 July 2013 Int J STD AIDS John White, Nigel O'Farrell and David Daniels group Group of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (CEG/BASHH) Guideline development 2013 UK National Guideline for the management of lymphogranul...

As was the case with the first version of these guidelines for the detection, monitoring and care of patients with CKD, published in 2007, this update follows the publication of National Guidelines applicable to England and Wales (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, NICE) [1], and Scotland (Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network, SIGN) [2]. This situation has produced fo...

Context: The Austrian health system is characterized by fragmentation of policy and financing. Therefore, an institute for quality in the health system was founded to bridge the gap between different interests and to bring forward quality work in the whole health system. One of the first tasks of this institute is the development and implementation of so-called ‘Bundesqualitätsleitlinien’, whic...

Introduction In 2008 the World Allergy Organization (WAO) verified that the existing guidelines on CMA were usually national position papers reflecting local views and needs, with flexible, sometimes evidence-based, strategies [1-4]. Then, a global guideline for IgE-mediated CMA from diagnosis to treatment was developed using the GRADE approach [5]. We review here the first steps of Diagnosis a...

This paper describes an experience of computerising a clinical guideline for the management of Diabetes. This guideline is being used in a National Programme for Diabetes supported by the Health Ministry in Portugal, who is interested in supporting its use by General Practitioners. The prototype system was developed according to the Prestige Protocol Model that is briefly outlined. The main con...

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence recently published a clinical guideline on the management of venous thromboembolic disease and thrombophilia testing. Several stand-out recommendations are made which may be practice changing for many physicians, such as catheter-directed thrombolysis for ilio-femoral deep venous thrombosis, routine cancer screening and extended duration...