Disease relevance of Practice Guidelines

• PURPOSE: The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Health Services Research Committee sought to assess whether more appropriate patterns of colony-stimulating factor (CSF) use occurred after the publication of ASCO evidence-based practice guidelines in 1994 and 1996 for patients with solid tumors or lymphoma [1].
• BACKGROUND: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is so prevalent that the endorsement of management strategies by professional organizations issuing clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) will likely influence the clinical and financial resources allocated to this condition [2].
• ACC/AHA 2002 guideline update for the management of patients with unstable angina and non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction--summary article: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association task force on practice guidelines (Committee on the Management of Patients With Unstable Angina) [3].
• This is the fourth in a series of practice guidelines commissioned by the Infectious Diseases Society of America through its Practice Guidelines Committee. The purpose of this guideline is to provide assistance to clinicians when making decisions on when and how to best administer parenteral antimicrobial therapy [4].
• The guidelines draw on the National Kidney Foundation-Dialysis Outcomes Quality Initiative (NKF-DOQI) Clinical Best Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Anemia in Chronic Renal Failure, but reflect European clinical practice and experience [5].

Psychiatry related information on Practice Guidelines

• In keeping with current practice guidelines, initiation of treatment with temazepam for transient insomnia should begin with the 7.5 mg dose [6].
• These practice guidelines for the biological treatment of unipolar depressive disorders were developed by an international Task Force of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) [7].
• OBJECTIVES: Several guidelines have been published for the care of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); however, few data describe adoption of practice guidelines [8].

High impact information on Practice Guidelines

• Users' guides to the medical literature. VIII. How to use clinical practice guidelines. A. Are the recommendations valid? The Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group [9].
• Evidence-based practice guidelines from the US Preventive Services Task Force [10].
• Current practice guidelines could be more efficient if risk stratification was based on this ratio rather than primarily on the LDL cholesterol level [11].
• Use of epoetin in patients with cancer: evidence-based clinical practice guidelines of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Society of Hematology [12].
• 2000 update of recommendations for the use of hematopoietic colony-stimulating factors: evidence-based, clinical practice guidelines. American Society of Clinical Oncology Growth Factors Expert Panel [13].

Chemical compound and disease context of Practice Guidelines

• Screening tests for colon cancer, breast cancer, and elevated serum cholesterol are widely advocated and included in some practice guidelines [14].
• NCCN sarcoma practice guidelines. National Comprehensive Cancer Network [15].
• Mild traumatic brain injury in children: practice guidelines for emergency department and hospitalized patients. The Trauma Program, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine [16].
• New practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of diabetes mellitus published by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) reflect stringent goals for blood glucose control [17].
• Also briefly presented are some practice guidelines developed by the staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for the use of ondansetron in the post-op setting, colony stimulating factors, and sumatriptan for the treatment of migraine [18].

Biological context of Practice Guidelines

• In defense of practice guidelines in rheumatology: comment on the article by Cohen [19].
• Practical guidelines for clinicians who treat patients with amiodarone. Practice Guidelines Subcommittee, North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology [20].
• American Academy of Clinical Toxicology practice guidelines on the treatment of methanol poisoning [21].
• The authors conducted a survey to ascertain post-training attitudes and self-reported use of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine occupational medicine practice guidelines [22].
• A steering committee and investigators from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) designed and carried out the ACOEM Practice Guidelines Dissemination Project to encourage adoption of the ACOEM Occupational Medicine Practice Guidelines [23].

Anatomical context of Practice Guidelines

• ACC/AHA Guidelines for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee to Revise the 1991 Guidelines for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery). American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association [24].
• Based on temperature, leukocyte count, and the presence or absence of a focus, ceftriaxone use, as compared with practice guidelines, was justified in 40 of 229 (17.5%) patients, questionable in 43 of 229 (18.8%), and not justified in 146 of 229 (63.7%) [25].

Associations of Practice Guidelines with chemical compounds

• The American Society of Clinical Oncology sought to establish evidence-based, clinical practice guidelines for the use of dexrazoxane, mesna, and amifostine in patients who are not enrolled on clinical treatment trials [26].
• In keeping with the recommendations of practice guidelines, the survey identified under-use of adjunctive medication (GP IIb/IIIa receptor blockers, statins, and angiotensin-converting enzyme-inhibitors) [27].
• Significant increases in the use of low-molecular-weight heparins and glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors occurred in STEMI and NSTEMI patients in advance of published practice guidelines (September/November 2000) with marked geographical differences [28].
• Bupropion SR is recommended for first-line pharmacotherapy alongside NRT in the updated US Clinical Practice Guidelines and the UK Health Education Authority Guidelines [29].
• Current practice guidelines for stroke prophylaxis recommend warfarin (target INR 2.5: range 2.0 to 3.0) for AF patients at high risk for stroke including those over 75 years of age or younger patients with additional risk factors [30].

Gene context of Practice Guidelines

• Recent articles and editorials, as well as practice guidelines prepared by the College of American Pathologists, recommend screening for HH with transferrin saturation and ferritin testing, and with percutaneous liver biopsy for those with positive laboratory test results [31].
• The laboratory variable whose measurements are quite often recommended in the 10 clinical practice guidelines or in the four related systematic reviews that we retrieved are carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), and liver function tests to a lesser extent [32].
• Although not all women receiving aromatase inhibitors will require additional treatment for bone health, postmenopausal women with a history of breast cancer at risk of osteoporosis should be identified, monitored, and managed according to practice guidelines [33].
• Adult patients are increasingly seeking treatment for the symptoms of ADHD, and physicians need practice guidelines [34].
• The European Survey of Anaemia Management 2003 (ESAM 2003) was a 1 day randomized survey conducted to assess anaemia management in dialysis patients 4 years after the introduction of the European Best Practice Guidelines [35].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Practice Guidelines

• ACC/AHA/ASNC guidelines for the clinical use of cardiac radionuclide imaging--executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (ACC/AHA/ASNC Committee to Revise the 1995 Guidelines for the Clinical Use of Cardiac Radionuclide Imaging) [36].
• ACC/AHA guidelines of percutaneous coronary interventions (revision of the 1993 PTCA guidelines)--executive summary. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (committee to revise the 1993 guidelines for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty) [37].
• MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: We examined the association between five recommendations from the clinical practice guidelines most directly related to the provision of nutrition support (use of parenteral nutrition, feeding protocol, early enteral nutrition, small bowel feedings, and motility agents) and adequacy of enteral nutrition [38].
• Hematopoietic cell transplantation for inherited metabolic diseases: an overview of outcomes and practice guidelines [39].
• Under the current European Best Practice Guidelines for Hemodialysis, residual GFR (and the presence of one or more symptoms of uremia) should not decrease below 15 ml/min [40].

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