The recommendations are for all adults but are based on surgical, anaesthetic, and orthogeriatric evidence and expertise acquired among older patients (the group in whom hip fracture is most common). Prevention of hip fracture is covered by other NICE guidance (on falls and osteoporosis).Ftouh...
A case of insufficient evidence equipoise: the NICE guidance on antibiotic prophylaxis for the prevention of infective endocarditis. J Med Ethics 2010;36:567--70.A case of insufficient evidence equipoise: the NICE guidance on antibiotic prophylaxis for the prevention of infective endocarditis. Mohindra...
In provisional guidance, NICE said it could not be certain whether the ALK tyrosine kinase inhibitor offered significant benefits over existing treatment options because of limitations in the data and how the treatments were compared. Rose Gray, policy manager at Cancer Research UK, said the decision...
Prevention of hip fracture is covered by other NICE guidance (on falls4 and osteoporosis5 6). NICE recommendations are based on systematic reviews of best available evidence and explicit consideration of cost effectiveness. When minimal evidence is available, recommendations are based on the Guideline...