Items for "Guidelines"

Are the TASC recommendations for diagnosis and treatment of PAOD still relevant?

With regards to the rapid progress of interventional therapy in the treatment of PAOD the revision of the published guidelines (TASC Recommendations 2000) is more than necessary...

Keywords: Behandlungsrichtlinien, pAVK, ACC/AHA-Leitlinien, Interventionen

Design of a Decision Support System for Test Ordering in General Practice: Choices and Decisions to Make

The increased availability of tests in the past years has been accompanied by an increased number of blood tests ordered by general practitioners...

Keywords: Decision Support, Guidelines, Test-ordering Behavior, General Practice

Why a System Awarded as MIE '99 Best Paper Failed to Be Used and Hence to Affect Patients Health?

Objective: The failure of a promising system is described with the aim of identifying the errors and the unfavourable conditions that led to such a result. Methods: The system, based on the AHCPR guideline for pressure ulcers prevention and integrated into the already existing clinical information system, is aimed at supporting nurses activities for: the risk assessment of the inpatient at the beginning of the hospitalization; the prevention plan, customized to each specific patient; the work plan for each day for all the patients; the report of the non-compliances to the GL and of the workload of the nurses. Results: The system was abandoned after a short period...

Keywords: Applied medical informatics, success factors, Guidelines, Evaluation, political factors

Effects of analytic variations in creatinine measurements on the classification of renal disease using estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR)

Background: This study uses the Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometer-Traceable Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) equation to evaluate the effects of analytic variation of serum creatinine on estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR)...

Keywords: bias, creatinine, estimated GFR (eGFR), glomerular filtration (GFR), Guidelines

The apoB/apoA-I ratio is better than the cholesterol ratios to estimate the balance between plasma proatherogenic and antiatherogenic lipoproteins and to predict coronary risk

Background: The apolipoprotein B (apoB)/apoA-I ratio represents the balance of proatherogenic and antiatherogenic lipoproteins...

Keywords: apolipoprotein A-I, apolipoprotein B, fatal myocardial infarction, Guidelines, lipoproteins

Guidelines for setting up an External Quality Assessment Scheme for blood smear interpretation. Part II: survey preparation, statistical evaluation and reporting

Blood smear analysis is a well-known technique in medical laboratories. The clinical relevance of this analysis and its interpretation are very important...

Keywords: blood smears, External Quality Assessment, Guidelines, reporting, statistical evaluation

Kriterien für den Einsatz von Einzelnukleotidpolymorphismen (SNPs) in der medizinischen Routinediagnostik: Erarbeitung technischer und diagnostischer Empfehlungen / Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in routine diagnosis: technical and diagnostic reco

Nach Abschluss des Humanen Genomprojekts (www.sanger.ac.uk), dessen Ergebnisse derzeit die wichtigste Grundlage unseres Wissens über das menschliche Erbgut bilden, wurden international weitere Großprojekte initiiert, um zu einem besseren Verständnis von genetischer Variation und deren Bedeutung als Marker für Erkrankungen und Krankheitsdisposition zu gelangen...

Keywords: diagnostische Anwendung, Einzelnukleotidpolymorphismen, genetische Variation, medizinische Indikation, Qualitätskriterien, Richtlinien, SNP, diagnostic application, genetic variation, Guidelines, medical indication, quality criteria, single nucleotide polymorphism