NICE guidelines, the National Stroke Strategy and ABCD2 scoreDr Daniel Robert Harman
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Atrial (AF) is associated with an increased stroke risk that may be reduced by therapeutic anticoagulation. However, anticoagulation is associated with an ... M Hughes,GYH Lip,and on behalf of the Guideline Development Group for the NICE national clinical guideline for management of atrial fibril...
KDIGO clinical practice guideline for the management of blood pressure in chronic kidney disease. Kidney Int Suppl. 2012;2(5):337-414.Google ScholarCrossref 41. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. Hypertension (CG127).http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg127. Accessed ...
ABPM has been indicated as the first step for diagnosing hypertension after the detection of an office BP ⩾ 140/90 mm Hg by current British NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) recommendations.39 Moreover, recent guidelines from the European Societies of Hypertension and...
If we do not collaborate with the users – in a broad sense – from the very beginning, clinical guidelines will stay on the bookshelves. If we fail to narrow them down and to have a realistic scope the main objective also fails, to reduce disparities across the country and the ...
(case-based) reasoning, in which practitioners build lessons from the particular to the general. This contrasts with thenomothetic reasoningimplicit in evidence-based guidelines, in which reasoning is assumed to go from the general (e.g. findings of clinical trials) to the particular (management ...
339 (84.5%) patients had no spirometry reading recorded in their clinical records. Of the remaining 62 patients, 20 had a FeV1/FVC confirmed as ≤ 0.7. Overall, 162 (40.3%) patients were over the age of 40 with a history of smoking recorded. Conclusion: In 99.6% of cases, guidelines ...
The substantially higher SMbR for composite CVD in women than men, in the 30 to 50, and over 50 age groups, is a novel finding of considerable clinical significance. Although a study of the general population of adults with phenotypic FH in the United States had shown that age-based acceler...
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines on the management of adults with Type 1 diabetes mellitus recommend a plasma glucose range of 5.0–8.0mmol/l during surgery or acute illness 8. A lower limit of 5.0mmol/l provides a 'buffer zone' before dangerous ...