Hospital leaders agree: Evidence-based care protocols to guide how care is delivered are becoming the new norm. Putting guidelines in place can improve patient safety, streamline methods of care, ...

The Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA) will begin accepting submissions in two new formats – assistive technology guidelines and assistive technology ...

Burns can be among the most devastating of injuries. Following the formulation of practice guidelines (PGs) that addressed the care and management of burn injuries in developed countries, the ...

Evidence-based guidelines are needed to determine appropriate follow-up intervals for chronic medical conditions to maximize the quality of patient care and minimize unnecessary costs. Although there ...

An ad hoc committee under the auspices of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will develop a framework to evaluate existing clinical practice guidelines for prescribing ...

Pregnancy and the first year postpartum - referred to as the peripartum period - are a period of tremendous physiological, psychological, and social changes in a woman's life. An estimated 1 in 5 ...

Practicing evidence-based medicine should lead to improved patient outcomes. McCormack and Elwyn point out that the outcomes may not be lower disease rates or longer life if the patient chooses not to ...

Guidelines sound like common sense—complex diseases present a host of complicating factors, and guidelines aid providers in readily navigating those factors to provide optimal treatment. But reality ...

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, progressive-fibrosing interstitial lung disease of unknown origin that affects 3 million people worldwide and imparts substantial burdens to patients, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The American Dietetic Association has published new evidence-based practice guidelines on nutrition treatment ...

Improving Relative Survival, But Large Remaining Differences in Survival for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Across Europe and the United States From 1990 to 2004 NCCN uses a system of guideline development ...