Disease relevance of Advisory Committees

• This article represents initial deliberation of an international task force appointed by the US National Multiple Sclerosis Society to develop recommendations for optimal clinical assessment tools for multiple sclerosis clinical trials [1].
• The APA Task Force report on benzodiazepine dependence, toxicity, and abuse [2].
• The Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee published guidelines for prudent use of vancomycin to combat increasing resistance to antimicrobial drugs [3].
• These data were presented to the Medicines Control Agency and the Gene Therapy Advisory Committee as part of the regulatory submissions for a clinical trial in melanoma patients [4].
• The Parenteral Drug Association virus filter task force has chosen PR772 as the model bacteriophage to standardize nomenclature for large-pore-size virus-retentive filters (filters designed to retain viruses larger than 50 to 60 nm in size) [5].

Psychiatry related information on Advisory Committees

• MATERIALS AND METHODS: The case volume from the Residency Review Committee (RRC) operative logs, ABSITE scores, ABS performance, fellowship training, and subsequent career choices were examined for all graduating chief residents in general surgery from our program over the past 17 years [6].
• This paper describes the development of a Taiwanese version of the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI-T) and discusses its psychometric properties in Taiwan. The BPI-T was developed from the original BPI using back-translation and committee review [7].
• The Clinical Plan has been developed, in part, through analysis of the studies conducted by Pfizer in its successful effort to have Zoloft approved by the FDA for use with PTSD patients, and through review of transcripts of the FDA's Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee meeting that recommended approval of Zoloft for PTSD [8].
• The Advisory Committee on the Training of Dental Practitioners of the EU (ACTDP) in order to ensure a comparably demanding standard in dental education, recommended in 1986 a self-assessment system, and visitations to dental training establishments [9].

High impact information on Advisory Committees

• An Institute of Medicine task force is expected to issue a report on this subject in September 1998 [10].
• In 1981-1982, a Massachusetts Hospital Association and Massachusetts Blue Cross-Blue Shield task force reviewing ancillary services found that the use of respiratory therapy at New England Deaconess Hospital far exceeded the statewide average [11].
• However, MRI of the head was negative for MS in 25% and equivocal in 40% of the patients considered to have MS by the diagnostic review committee (sensitivity, 58%) [12].
• AGA Task Force on Quality in Practice: a national overview and implications for GI practice [13].
• World Bank task force push/pulls AIDS vaccines [14].

Chemical compound and disease context of Advisory Committees

• The impact of an ambulatory rotation on medical student interest in internal medicine. The Society of General Internal Medicine Task Force on Career Choice in Internal Medicine [15].
• Recommendations from a Minnesota task force for the management of persons with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus [16].
• Twenty-six symptomatic patients with diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma (DMPM) were enrolled in a Phase II Italian Lung Cancer Task Force (FONICAP) study to assess the activity and toxicity of doxorubicin and cisplatin combination chemotherapy [17].
• During the 18 year period 1972-1989 a total of 62 cases of agranulocytosis associated with the use of sulphasalazine were reported to the Swedish Adverse Drug Reactions Advisory Committee (SADRAC) [18].
• Glycopeptide prescribing in a tertiary referral paediatric hospital and applicability of hospital infection control practices advisory committee (HICPAC) guidelines to children [19].

Biological context of Advisory Committees

• Future roles and training of internal medicine subspecialists. American Board of Internal Medicine Task Force on Subspecialty Internal Medicine [20].
• Guideline for infection control in healthcare personnel, 1998. Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee [21].
• BACKGROUND: The Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology appointed an advisory committee to conduct a practice analysis (PA) of infection control professionals (ICPs) to identify current practices of ICPs [22].
• Recently several advisory committees (EDSTAC, ICCVAM) have recommended that stable estrogen-dependent gene expression assays be developed for screening chemicals for estrogenic activity because of the high degree of specificity of the response and potential for use in a high-throughput mode [23].
• Plethysmographic measurements of lung volume and airway resistance. ERS/ATS Task Force on Standards for Infant Respiratory Function Testing. European Respiratory Society/ American Thoracic Society [24].

Associations of Advisory Committees with chemical compounds

• FDA Arthritis Advisory Committee meeting: methotrexate; guidelines for the clinical evaluation of antiinflammatory drugs; DMSO in scleroderma [25].
• Task force 5: Expert testimony and opinions [26].
• In the largest series of patients with glibenclamide-associated hypoglycaemia reported so far, 51 cases reported to the Swedish Adverse Drug Reactions Advisory Committee and six additional cases are reviewed and related to sales and prescription data of glibenclamide [27].
• Non-invasive continuous glucose monitoring in Type I diabetic patients with optical glucose sensors. Non-Invasive Task Force (NITF) [28].
• Intervention of the Renal Disaster Relief Task Force in the 1999 Marmara, Turkey earthquake [29].

Gene context of Advisory Committees

• After 2 more years without improvement, a SHEA task force was appointed to draft this evidence-based guideline on preventing nosocomial transmission of such pathogens, focusing on the two considered most out of control: MRSA and VRE [30].
• EGFR antisense gene therapy was reviewed by the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee and the Food and Drug Administration, and a phase I clinical trial is currently underway in patients with advanced HNSCC [31].
• ACC/AHA task force report: guidelines for ambulatory electrocardiography [32].
• For this methodology to gain wide acceptance, the task force encourages development of a common data set for both adult and pediatric ALS interventions [33].
• It is hoped the efforts of distinguished expert entities such as the task force and SEP will be a useful guide in addressing the needs of the biomedical community and assisting in its success [34].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Advisory Committees

• Therefore, SLE patients should receive immunizations according to the recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee [35].
• Based on these findings, the National Institutes of Health Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC) has recently approved a phase I human trial of CF gene therapy using an AAV vector [36].
• PARTICIPANTS: A task force of more than 40 experts in disciplines related to the use of analgesic and sedative agents in the ICU was convened from the membership of the American College of Critical Care Medicine (ACCM) and the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) [37].
• The Bioethics Consultation Form was adopted by the Patient Care Advisory committee of the Franklin Square Hospital Center in Baltimore, Maryland in 1986 [38].
• The 2003 Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. American Academy of Family Physicians. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. American College of Physicians. American Society of Internal Medicine. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [39].

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