INTRODUCTION Over 25 years, emergency medicine in the United States has amassed a large evidence base that has been systematically assessed and interpreted through ACEP Clinical Policies. While not previously studied in emergency medicine, prior work has shown that nearly half of all recommendations in medical specialty practice guidelines may be based on limited or inconclusive evidence. We so...

Undoubtedly, one of the most popular scientific activities within the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) is clinical practice guidelines. The guidelines are intended as an aid in our decisions with patients. However, there are clinical situations that are not included in the guidelines, or others that are supported by expert consensus in the absence of robust scientific evidence based on robu...

EASL–EORTC Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) on the management of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) define the use of surveillance, diagnosis, and therapeutic strategies recommended for patients with this type of cancer. This is the first European joint effort by the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) and the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) t...

clinical practice guidelines are the most important and valid guidelines for treatment of diseases, and are developed through experts consensus on a subject, considering the highest available evidence (systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and randomized controlled trials). we briefly review the latest evidence-based guidelines for the treatment of two common diseases of acne (provided by european...

Doctors are inundated with medical information, some inadequately evidence-based, much of it captured in clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). The Ontario Guidelines Advisory Committee (GAC) selects topic areas, searches for all CPGs on the topic, and reviews them using the AGREE Instrument. Based in large part on the AGREE score, the GAC summarises one guideline in each topic area and mounts it...

The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) is a nonprofit professional society whose primary purposes are to advance the science, education, and professional practice of medical physics. The AAPM has more than 8,000 members and is the principal organization of medical physicists in the United States. The AAPM will periodically define new practice guidelines for medical physics pr...