Clinical guidelines

Antihypertensive drug name and dose is associated with compelling indications which are based on benefits from outcome studies or clinical guidelines. For example, the drug class aldosterone antagonists have eplerenone dosed at 25-50 mg per day which is indicated for heart failure patients after an Ml and supported by the EPHESUS trial. 

American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Board of Directors and the Clinical Guidelines Task Force. Nutrition assessment-adults. J Parenter Enteral Nutr 2002 26 1SA-138SA. 

US Department of Health and Human Services, NIH-NHLBI. Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults. NIH publication no. 00-4084. Bethesda, MD National Institutes of Health, 2000. 

What are the similarities and differences in prescribing patterns across different countries that maybe determined by local and systemic service factors How can pharmacotherapy clinical guidelines and policy facilitate best practice to treat biologically and culturally diverse individuals ... 

Lefebvre G, Allaire C, Jeffrey J (2002) Clinical Practice Gynaecology Committee and Executive Committeee and Council, Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada. SOGC clinical guidelines. Hysterectomy. J Obstet Gynaecol Can 4 37-61... 

National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)., Clinical guidelines on the identification, evaluation, and treatment of overweight and obesity The evidence report, US Government Press, Washington DC, 1998. 

Availability of essential medicines bst or formulary to practitioners Availability of clinical guidelines % key medicines available Complementary drug use indicators ... 

Average medicine cost per encounter % prescriptions in accordance with clinical guidelines... 

Developing, adapting, or adopting clinical guidelines for the health institution or district... 

Patients prefer medicines that are free or reimbursed. If only essential medicines are provided free by government or reimbursed through insurance, patients will pressure prescribers to prescribe only essential medicines. If medicines are only reimbursed when the prescription conforms to clinical guidelines, there may be an even stronger pressure on prescribers to prescribe rationally. 

V. Clinical guidelines on the diagnosis of drug dependence arising in therapeutic situations 270... 

V CLINICAL GUIDELINES ON THE DIAGNOSIS OF DRUG DEPENDENCE ARISING IN THERAPEUTIC SITUATIONS... 

Wood L, Jogessar V, Ward P, Jacobs P. Estimation and predictive use of the corrected count increment -a proposed clinical guideline. Transfus Apheresis Sci 2005 32 117-24. 

Newcorn, J.H., Schulz, K., Harrison, M., De Beilis, M.D., Udarbe, J.K., and Halperin, J.M. (1998) (Xj-adrenergic agonists neurochemistry, efficacy and clinical guidelines for use in children. Pe-diatr Clin North Am 45 1099-1122. 

The publication of DSM-IV in 1994 (American Psychiatric Association 1994), ICD-10 (clinical guidelines) in 1992 (World Health Organization, 1992) and ICD-10 (research criteria) in 1993 (World Health Organization, 1993) led to a greater convergence between the DSM and ICD classification systems (for details see Hollis, 2001 Remschmidt, 2001). 

An excellent brief article on buprenorphine treatment has been provided by Taikato et al. (2005), which notes the common possible side-effects (headaches, nausea and vomiting, sweating, constipation, etc.) and drug interactions. The limited central depressant effect of buprenorphine may be compounded by alcohol and antidepressants, while the metabolism of buprenorphine can be enhanced by anticonvulsants, with therefore possibly reduced efficacy. There have been some case reports of liver toxicity from buprenorphine that is reversible if the medication is stopped (Herve et al. 2004), and often clinical guidelines will recommend that liver function tests are included in buprenorphine treatment, as they definitely should be with naltrexone. 

Clinical trials have not shown improved survival in cancer patients treated with G-CSF. Clinical guidelines for the use of G-... 

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