The following article is a summary of the American Geriatrics Society/British Geriatrics Society Clinical Practice Guideline for Prevention of Falls in Older Persons (2010). This article provides additional discussion of the guideline process and the differences between the current guideline and the 2001 version and includes the guidelines' recommendations, algorithm, and acknowledgments. The c...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa pharmacists as one of health-care providers face ethical issues in terms of pharmaceutical care, relationship with patients and cooperation with the health-care team. other than pharmacy, there are pharmaceutical companies in various fields of manufacturing, importing or distributing that have their own ethical issues. therefore, pharmacy practice i...

This guideline replaces guideline / NfG Reference.

Background: The Guideline Elements Markup (GEM) model [1] was developed at Yale as a way of tagging elements of narrative guidelines, to enable them to be more precisely accessed and retrieved. Many of these elements relate to the nature of the process used to develop the guideline, kinds of evidence, and explanations and references for recommendations. The GuideLine Interchange Format (GLIF) [...

objectives: limited studies have demonstrated that the theory of  planned behavior (tpb) may be able to help in explaining the variation in physicians’ behavior. we selected the management of asthma as the tracer topic because asthma had nationally known clinical guidelines, and the main medicinal therapies used for asthma had limited applications for the treatment of  other diseases, and hence...

We aimed to provide guidelines for the evidence-based diagnosis and treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and basic information about diagnostic testing, drug therapy, and surgical treatment. The target population in which to apply the guideline is men over 40 years of age who complain of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). The intended users of this guideline are all physicians who ...

STEP 1: STATE THE PROPOSAL. Revision to current statement. Existing guideline, practice or training activity, or new guideline: Revision to current guideline Check the blood glucose level during stabilization after resuscitation Step 1A: Refine the question; state the question as a positive (or negative) hypothesis. State proposed guideline recommendation as a specific, positive hypothesis. Use...

Guideline update and changes: This guideline is an updated version of the 2008 guideline, revised to take into account the 2008 WHO guidelines as they apply to the lymphoproliferative disorders. There have been no changes to the sections on histiocytic and dendritic cell neoplasms. The pathology of posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder is dealt with in the BCSH guideline on this topic. Th...

This paper presents a new guideline authoring tool, called Guideline Markup Tool (GMT). It proposes two useful features, which are missing in existing tools. First, it facilitates the translation of a free-text guideline into a formal representation, providing special XML macros. Second, it can be used to create links between the original guideline and its formal representation. Therefore, the ...