Equitable and effective clinical guidance development and dissemination: trauma aims to lead the way by Deborah M Stein, Elliott R Haut, Eileen M Bulger, Vanessa P Ho, Andres M Rubiano, Ashley Farley, Lacey N LaGrone, Danielle J Wilson, Maria Michaels, Meghan B Lane-Fall, Michael A Person, Linda Reinhart

“…The Institute of Medicine and the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine have called for learning health systems, with emphasis on clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) as a means of limiting preventable deaths. …”
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Comparative analysis of adolescent hypertension definitions for predicting early adulthood carotid artery intima-media thickness: Tehran lipid and glucose study by Maryam Barzin, Shirin Yaghoobpoor, Maryam Mahdavi, Behnaz Abiri, Majid Valizadeh, Fereidoun Azizi, Pooneh Dehghan, Farhad Hosseinpanah

“…Participants were categorized into normal blood pressure (BP), high-normal BP, HTN stage 1, and HTN stage 2 groups based on the childhood HTN definitions of the 4th report, European Society of Hypertension (ESH), and American Academy of Pediatrics Clinical Practice Guidelines (AAP-CPG). Akaike information criterion (AIC) and relative efficiencies (RE) were calculated to compare the ability of each to predict a high CIMT (≥95th percentile) during early adulthood. …”
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Implementing a pharmacogenetic-driven algorithm to guide dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) in Caribbean Hispanics: protocol for a non-randomised clinical trial by Dagmar F Hernandez-Suarez, Kyle Melin, Frances Marin-Maldonado, Hector J Nunez, Ariel F Gonzalez, Lorena Gonzalez-Sepulveda, Sona Rivas-Tumanyan, Hetanshi Naik, Gualberto Ruaño, Stuart A Scott, Jorge Duconge

“…The study will be carried out in compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki and International Conference on Harmonization Good Clinical Practice Guidelines. Findings will be published in a peer-reviewed journal and controlled access to experimental data will be available.Trial registration number NCT03419325; Pre-results.…”
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Effect of music on clinical outcome after hip fracture operations (MCHOPIN): study protocol of a multicentre randomised controlled trial by Detlef van der Velde, Marten J Poley, Esther M M van Lieshout, Michael H J Verhofstad, Johan Haumann, Johannes Jeekel, Robert Haverlag, Victor X Fu, Leonie J P Slegers

“…The trial will be carried out following the Declaration of Helsinki principles, Good Clinical Practice guidelines and Dutch Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act. …”
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Physician’s Adherence to Clinical Guidelines for in-Hospital Anticoagulant Prescribing by A. A. Chernov, E. V. Kleymenova, D. A. Sychev, L. P. Yashina, M. D. Nigmatkulova, V. A. Otdelenov, S. A. Payushchik

“…Their safety closely depends on physician’s compliance with clinical practice guidelines (CPG) and summary of product characteristics (SmPC).Aim. …”
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Economic evaluations of maternal health interventions: a scoping review [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Sher Ting Chim, Steve McDonald, Rana Islamiah Zahroh, Katherine E. Eddy, Alexander Eggleston, Joshua P. Vogel, Doris Chou, Olufemi T. Oladapo, Caroline S. E. Homer, Nick Scott, Elizabeth Sebastian, Chloe Bykersma

“…Background Evidence on the affordability and cost-effectiveness of interventions is critical to decision-making for clinical practice guidelines and development of national health policies. …”
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MultifocAL COntact Lenses for Myopia (MALCOLM) control in Australian children: a study protocol for a double-blind, contralateral eye, non-inferiority, randomised controlled clinic... by Isabelle Jalbert, Nancy Briggs, Rebecca Dang, Alex Hui, Danny Kho, Mimi Vi, Pauline Kang

“…This trial started recruitment during the recent COVID-19 pandemic in January 2021.Ethics and dissemination Ethics approval has been obtained from the UNSW Human Research Ethics Committee (HC200052), and the study complies with the Declaration of Helsinki and the International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use Good Clinical Practice guidelines. The results of this trial will be disseminated in peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations.Trial registration number ACTRN12620000159954, CTN-00 282–1 v2, NCT06887920.…”
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Dietary intakes and nutritional issues in inborn errors of immunity: a systematic review by Macey Freer, Rani Bhatia, Rani Bhatia, Kahn Preece, Kahn Preece, Kirrilly M. Pursey, Kirrilly M. Pursey, Kirrilly M. Pursey

“…This review reinforces the need for dietetic input in people with an IEI and the development evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for people with an IEI.Systematic review registrationhttps://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO, identifier CRD42023412365.…”
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Proportion and clinical characteristics of metabolic-associated fatty liver disease and associated liver fibrosis in an urban Chinese population by Mengmeng Hou, Qi Gu, Jiawei Cui, Yao Dou, Xiuhong Huang, Jie Li, Liang Qiao, Yuemin Nan, Yuanyuan Ji

“…The diagnosis of MAFLD was based on the established clinical practice guidelines. The fibrosis-4 index score (FIB-4) was employed to evaluate hepatic fibrosis, with a FIB-4 score of ≥1.3 indicating significant fibrosis. …”
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‘Effects of a home-based bimodal lifestyle intervention in frail patients with end-stage liver disease awaiting orthotopic liver transplantation’: study protocol of a non-randomise... by Hans Blokzijl, Vincent E de Meijer, Rienk Dekker, Joost M Klaase, Coby Annema, Bart C Bongers, Allard G Wijma, Job AM van der Palen, Frans JC Cuperus

“…Finally, feasibility of the programme will be assessed by monitoring the participation rate and reasons for non-participation, number and severity of adverse events, and dropout rate and reasons for dropout.Ethics and dissemination This study was approved by the Medical Research Ethics Committee of the UMCG (registration number NL83612.042.23, August 2023) and is registered in the Clinicaltrials.gov register (NCT05853484). Good Clinical Practice guidelines and the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki will be applied. …”
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The Japanese Critical Care Nutrition Guideline 2024 by Kensuke Nakamura, Ryo Yamamoto, Naoki Higashibeppu, Minoru Yoshida, Hiroomi Tatsumi, Yoshiyuki Shimizu, Hiroo Izumino, Taku Oshima, Junji Hatakeyama, Akira Ouchi, Rie Tsutsumi, Norihiko Tsuboi, Natsuhiro Yamamoto, Ayumu Nozaki, Sadaharu Asami, Yudai Takatani, Kohei Yamada, Yujiro Matsuishi, Shuhei Takauji, Akihito Tampo, Yusuke Terasaka, Takeaki Sato, Saiko Okamoto, Hideaki Sakuramoto, Tomoka Miyagi, Keisei Aki, Hidehito Ota, Taro Watanabe, Nobuto Nakanishi, Hiroyuki Ohbe, Chihiro Narita, Jun Takeshita, Masano Sagawa, Takefumi Tsunemitsu, Shinya Matsushima, Daisuke Kobashi, Yorihide Yanagita, Shinichi Watanabe, Hiroyasu Murata, Akihisa Taguchi, Takuya Hiramoto, Satomi Ichimaru, Muneyuki Takeuchi, Joji Kotani

“…The Japanese Critical Care Nutrition Guideline 2024 (JCCNG 2024) is specific to Japan and is the latest set of clinical practice guidelines for nutrition therapy in critical care that was revised from JCCNG 2016 by the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine. …”
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Outcomes of Percutaneous Ultrasound-guided Splenic Procedures: A Retrospective Observational Study from a Tertiary Care Centre in Southern India by Ruth Anna Stephen, Vinu Moses, George M Varghese, KB Santhosh Babu, Suchita Chase, Shyamkumar N Keshava

“…As per the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Clinical Practice Guidelines classification, six patients (27.3%) had Category-A complications with small perisplenic haematomas, three patients (13.6%) had Category-B complications, 10 patients (45.5%) had Category-C complications and two patients (9.1%) had Category-D complications. …”
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Non-invasive ventilation in COVID-19-related acute hypoxemic respiratory failure: a narrative review by Luigi Aronne, Raffaella Pagliaro, Angela Schiattarella, Susan FM Campbell, Maria Vitale, Fabio Perrotta, Klara Komici, Germano Guerra, Andrea Bianco, Filippo Scialò, Vanvitelli - Monaldi COVID Group

“…According to the European Respiratory Society and the American Thoracic Society clinical practice guidelines, NIV is recommended to prevent intubation in hypoxemic acute respiratory failure in patients with community-acquired pneumonia or early acute respiratory distress syndrome without major organ dysfunction. …”
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Association between the number of retrieved lymph nodes and demographic/tumour-related characteristics in colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Rui Zhang, Jing Yang, Min Zhang, Qianqian Liu, Min Huang, Yuping Bai, Tingting He, Ziru Zhao, Mengyuan Jiang, Haitong Zhao

“…Objective Clinical practice guidelines recommend retrieving at least 12 lymph nodes for correct staging in colorectal cancer. …”
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Combined 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations and physical activity on mortality in US stroke survivors: findings from the NHANES by Junqi Liao, Jingyi Chen, Huimin Wu, Qing Zhu, Xiaogang Tang, Li Li, Aimei Zhang, Peiyi Mo, Yan Liu, Xinyi Yang, Yang Han, Zhaoyao Chen, Wenlei Li, Yuan Zhu, Minghua Wu

“…These findings provide new ideas and possibilities for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, offering a reference for development of clinical practice guidelines in the future.…”
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Prospects for the Use of NGAL and KIM-1 for the Diagnosis of Acute Kidney Injury in Patients Receiving Antibacterial Therapy by E. Yu. Nikitin, V. N. Drozdov, M. A. Vyzhigina, O. A. Vorobieva, A. A. Astapovskiy, K. N. Khalaidzheva, E. V. Shikh

“…The developers of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Acute Kidney Injury titled The Initiative to Improve Global Kidney Disease Outcomes (KDIGO) point at the need of new biomarkers for diagnosis acute kidney injury (AKI).The objective: to study and evaluate the diagnostic significance of the levels of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) and kidney injury molecule-1 (KIM-1) in patients with AKI in the early postoperative period when antibiotic therapy is used.Subjects and Methods. …”
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A CDE-based data structure for radiotherapeutic decision-making in breast cancer by Fabio Dennstädt, Maximilian Schmalfuss, Johannes Zink, Janna Hastings, Roberto Gaio, Max Schmerder, Nikola Cihoric, Paul Martin Putora

“…The framework was translated into machine-readable JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format. Six clinical practice guidelines of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) were analyzed as full text to evaluate how many guideline recommendations and corresponding decision-making criteria could be represented using our framework. …”
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Key Gaps in the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity in Children and Adolescents: A Critical Appraisal of Clinical Guidelines by Francesca Filippi-Arriaga, Michael Georgoulis, Eirini Bathrellou, Meropi D. Kontogianni, Eduard Mogas, Graciela Gastelum, Andreea Ciudin

“…Background: The worldwide increase in the prevalence of childhood obesity necessitates effective prevention and treatment strategies. Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) offer guidance, but significant heterogeneity or lack of practical application exists in their recommendations. …”
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Impact of an educational physiotherapy-yoga intervention on perceived stress in women treated with brachytherapy for cervical cancer: a randomised controlled mixed study protocol (... by Marta Jarlier, Estelle Laboureur, Kerstin Faravel, Laetitia Meignant, Maguy Del Rio, Sylvain Demontoy, Mailys De-Meric-de-Bellefon, Marie Cantaloube, Estelle Guerdoux

“…Qualitative analyses based on semistructured interview surveys will be conducted to gather valuable information and analyse in depth patients’ experiences with the intervention and UBT.Ethics and dissemination This study was approved by the French ethics committee (Comité de Protection des Personnes Ouest V, reference number 2023-A01491-44) on 22 February 2024 and will be carried out in accordance with the good clinical practice guidelines and the Declaration of Helsinki. …”
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mHealth intervention (mTB-Tobacco) for smoking cessation in people with drug-sensitive pulmonary tuberculosis in Bangladesh and Pakistan: protocol for an adaptive design, cluster r... by Rumana Huque, John Norrie, Kamran Siddiqi, Melanie Boeckmann, Mahmoud Danaee, Ai Keow Lim, Steve Parrott, Amina Khan, Saeed Ansaari, Maham Zahid, Fahmidur Rahman, Asiful Chowdhury, Shakhawat Hossain Rana

“…Cost-effectiveness analysis will be done to estimate the cost per quitter and cost per quality-adjusted life year gained, calculate the incremental cost-effectiveness ratios to establish the value for money for mTB-Tobacco.Ethics and dissemination This trial will be conducted in compliance with International Council on Harmonisation - Good Clinical Practice guidelines and the Declaration of Helsinki. …”
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