Background: Using alcohol is one of the most important death factors that can be prevented. Lifestyle-related diseases are at the top cause of mortality and burden of disease, whereas most of them can be prevented. Considering the growing importance of diseases related to lifestyle (including alcohol abuse), providing evidence-based clinical guidelines for diseases and life-style related condit...

Clinical practice guideline (CPG) activities must be planned carefully for efficient use of available resources and evidence-based implementation. De novo development of CPGs may sometimes 'recreate the wheel' and delay implementation. Three innovative alternatives to de novo CPG development (adopt, contextualise or adapt) are outlined, which have greater potential than de novo development to b...

This plain language summary serves as an overview in explaining earwax (cerumen). The summary applies to patients older than 6 months with a clinical diagnosis of earwax impaction and is based on the 2017 update of the Clinical Practice Guideline: Earwax (Cerumen Impaction). The evidence-based guideline includes research that supports diagnosis and treatment of earwax impaction. The guideline w...

The above recommendations are systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances. They should be used as an adjunct to sound clinical decision making. This clinical practice guideline was developed by an Alberta Clinical Practice Guideline working group. This guideline does not apply to the following...

The purpose of this guideline is to offer to the nuclear medicine team a framework that could prove helpful in daily practice. This guideline contains information related to the acquisition, processing, interpretation and indications for 99m Tc-DMSA scintigraphy in children. This guideline summarizes the views of the Paediatric Committee of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine. It shoul...

This Role 1, prolonged field care (PFC) guideline is intended to be used after Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) Guidelines, when evacuation to higher level of care is not immediately possible. A provider of PFC must first and foremost be an expert in TCCC. This Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) is meant to provide medical professionals who encounter burns in austere environments with eviden...

Guidelines for evaluating the levels of evidence based on quantitative research are well established. However, the same cannot be said for the evaluation of qualitative research. This article discusses a process members of an evidence-based clinical practice guideline development team with the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses used to create a scoring system to determ...

The purpose of this guideline is to offer to the nuclear medicine team a framework, which could prove helpful in daily practice. This guideline contains information related to the procedure and indications of measurement of glomerular filtration rate using blood samples in children. The present document is inspired by the report of the Radionuclides in Nephrourology Committee on renal clearance...

A guideline watch, summarizing significant developments in the scientific literature since publication of this guideline , may be available in the Psychiatric Practice section of the APA Web site at www.psych.org. reports no competing interests. The Executive Committee on Practice Guidelines has reviewed this guideline and found no evidence of influence from these relationships. The APA Practic...