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BACKGROUND Conflict of interest (COI) is an important potential source of bias in the development of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) and high rates of COI among guideline authors have been reported in the past. Our objective was to report current rates of disclosure and specific author COI across a broad range of CPGs and to examine whether CPG characteristics were associated with the prese...

Guidelines are collections of practical information that assist with clinical decision making. Evidence-based guideline development includes a critique of the quality and an evaluation of the strength of published evidence. Evolution From opinion-based to evidence-based guidelines is incomplete in many of the organizations that author them, so perioperative nurses must become skillful at critiq...

Cardiovascular disease/prevention e control; climateric; hormone replacement therapy; guideline; evidence-based medicine. In the position of coordinators/participants of the I Brazilian Guideline for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases in Perimenopausal Women of the journal Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia1 published in the last edition2, we read, somewhat perplexed, the point of view ...

[This corrects the article on p. 96 in vol. 29, PMID: 27103964.].

antibiotic guidelines have proven to be a simple and effective intervention to guide the choice of appropriate empiric antibiotic regimens. the goals of this study were to evaluate adherence to guidelines and streamlining of antibiotics. hospital records of hospitalized patients in infectious diseases ward imam khomeini hospital, tehran, iran, from may 2008 to september 2009 were reviewed. adhe...

BACKGROUND Conflict of interest (COI) is an important potential source of bias in the development of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). OBJECTIVES To examine rates of disclosure of COI, including financial interests in companies that manufacture drugs that are recommended in CPGs on glycemic control in type 2 diabetes mellitus, and to explore the relationship between recommendations for spe...

Most economists view the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as a cartel. We investigate the dynamic strategic interaction among NCAA members in a cartel model with incomplete information focused on the strategic behavior induced by self-monitored enforcement of recruiting rules. Empirical results from a panel Probit model strongly support the predictions of the model. Lagged winnin...