Antibiotic use for acute respiratory infections among under-5 children in Bangladesh: a population-based survey by Jeffrey Braithwaite, Mohammad Riashad Monjur, Fahmida Chowdhury, Md Zakiul Hassan, Md Abdullah Al Jubayer Biswas, Mohammad Abdullah Heel Kafi

“…The significant prevalence of antibiotic exposure in under-5 children supports the need for coordinated policy interventions and implementation of clinical practice guidelines at point of care to minimise the adverse effects attributed to antibiotic overuse.…”
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Updated therapeutic options for human brucellosis: A systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. by Shanjun Huang, Jiaying Xu, Hao Wang, Zhuo Li, Ruifang Song, Yiting Zhang, Menghan Lu, Xin Han, Tian Ma, Yingtong Wang, Jiaxin Hao, Shanshan Song, Qing Zhen, Tiejun Shui

“…<h4>Background</h4>In clinical practice guidelines, there is no consensus about the medications that should be initially offered to patients with brucellosis. …”
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Evaluating the utilisation patterns of pharmacological therapy in COVID-19 patients: an ecological study in Italy by Graziano Onder, Francesco Trotta, Maria Lucia Marino, Aurora Di Filippo, Davide Eleuteri

“…Backgound The drug central monitoring system set up in Italy to evaluate the real-time trends of medicines used in hospital and primary care settings contributed to inform drug supplies, avoided stockpiling and allowed to monitor adherence to clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of COVID-19 patients. …”
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Sustainable implementation efforts in physio- and occupational therapy: a scoping review by Johanna Fritz, Sara Landerdahl Stridsberg, Riikka Holopainen

“…The implementation of evidence-based methods in health care requires systematic support, but it is still unclear which strategies support professional adherence to clinical practice guidelines. Behavior change techniques can contribute to a more detailed description of implementation strategies. …”
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Single center experience with a novel single-branched thoracic stent graft by Theodoros Kratimenos, Dimitra Tachmetzidi Papoutsi, Panagiotis Petaloudis, Nefeli Ntinou, Myrto Papadopoulou, Vasileios Panou, Evaggelia Kalaitzidou, Dimitrios Tomais, Ilias Samiotis, Loukia Alexopoulou-Prounia, Panagiotis Dedeilias, Mihalis Argiriou

“…Abstract Background Thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) has been a feasible treatment option since the first stent graft was approved by the FDA in 2005, and is now the recommended method for treating most descending aorta pathology in the current clinical practice guidelines. Indications for TEVAR include descending aorta aneurysms, traumatic aortic injury and pathology that presents as acute aortic syndrome. …”
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GABRINOX-2 protocol: a French, prospective, multicentre, randomised phase II trial evaluating gemcitabine/nab-paclitaxel followed by FOLFIRINOX versus FOLFIRINOX alone as first-lin... by Sophie Gourgou, Fabienne Portales, Marc Ychou, Catherine Fiess, Eric Assenat, Fanny Salasc

“…It will be carried out in accordance with European Reglementation 536/2014 on clinical trials, the Declaration of Helsinki, Good Clinical Practice guidelines and the French Public Health Code. …”
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Health professionals’ beliefs and attitudes towards preconception care: a systematic review by Cherie Caut, Danielle Schoenaker, Erica McIntyre, Amie Steel

“…Clinically relevant preconception information and clinical practice guidelines have since been developed to aid health professionals in preconception care delivery. …”
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QUALITY OF PATIENT’S LIFE AFTER MULTIPLE MYELOMAREGRESSION by Yu. M. Kolesnik, B. B. Samura

“…Methods: Subjects with full or partial remission of multiple myeloma were enrolled in the study.Diagnosis and staging of multiple myeloma were defined by current clinical practice guidelines. To be achieving remission chemotherapy with MPT, MP, CVP, PAD, VMPT, VADTD, CTD, VMP was used accordingly contemporary clinical guidelines. …”
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Neurological Deficits Following Regional Anesthesia and Pain Interventions: Reviewing Current Standards of Care by Salah N. El-Tallawy, Rania S. Ahmed, Gehan I. Salem, Tariq A. Alzahrani, Mamdouh M. Haddara, Radwa H. Ahmed, Mohamed S. Nagiub, Abdullah T. Alsubaie, Mohamed M. Ali, Mahmoud M. Elbasha, Ahmed A. Ahmed

“…These neurological deficits may result from non-adherence to established standards of care and deviations from the clinical practice guidelines. An online database search was conducted across multiple websites to identify the relevant articles. …”
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Lived experiences of palliative care physicians on the impacts of language and cultural discordance on end-of-life care across Ontario, Canada: a qualitative study using the inters... by Seung Heyck Lee, Maya Gibb, Sathya Karunananthan, Margaret Cody, Peter Tanuseputro, Claire E. Kendall, Daniel Bédard, Stephanie Collin, Krystal Kehoe MacLeod

“…These findings will be useful in informing clinical practice guidelines and mobilizing policy-level change to improve palliative/EoL care for patients from linguistic and cultural minority groups.…”
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Effect of invasive tests during pregnancy on perinatal transmission of hepatitis B infection: a scoping review by Ka Wang Cheung, Tiffany Sin-Tung Au, Ying Rong Li, Zhenyan Han, Zhu Zhang, Mimi Tin Yan Seto

“…We also reviewed 50 international clinical practice guidelines. Most of them did not have recommendations on the management of hepatitis B infected pregnant individuals requiring prenatal or intrapartum invasive tests and significant discrepancies existed among the remaining guidelines. …”
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Antibiotics in surgical wards: use or misuse? A newly industrialized country’s perspective by Mun Kit Lim, Pauline Siew Mei Lai, Sasheela Sri La Sri Ponnampalavanar, Sharifah Faridah Syed Omar, Nur Aishah Taib, Mohamad Yasim Yusof, Claire Marie Italiano, David Chee Ming Kong, Adeeba Kamarulzaman

“…The appropriateness of antibiotic therapy was based on compliance with either the Malaysian National Antibiotic Guidelines 2008 or International Clinical Practice Guidelines and determined by an expert panel (consisting of two infectious disease consultants and a pharmacist). …”
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Incidence of bleeding in patients on different anticoagulants and antiplatelet therapies undergoing thoracentesis by Zaid Noori, Lamia Aljundi, Abdelkader Chaar, Peter Boshara, Aryan Shiari, George Gennaoui, Cristine Girard, Suzan Szpunar, Rene Franco-Elizondo

“…Several society guidelines recommend holding antiplatelet medications and anticoagulants prior to thoracentesis. Clinical practice guidelines also recommend correcting international normalised ratios of more than two and platelet counts &lt;50 X10∧9/L.Methods This is a retrospective descriptive study that included 292 patients who underwent thoracentesis in the inpatient setting at Ascension St John Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, USA from 2016 to 2018. …”
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Study protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial using music prehabilitation to reduce preoperative anxiety before oncological colorectal surgery: the MU-PRIOR trial by Erwin Birnie, Markus Klimek, Johannes Jeekel, Jorrit Gustav Verhoeven, Roos Geensen, Thomas Lodewijk Adriaan Dirven, Willem Jaap Rogier Rietdijk

“…The trial will be carried out following the updated Declaration of Helsinki principles and Good Clinical Practice guidelines. Study results will be published and reported in a peer-reviewed journal according to the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials guidelines.Trial registration number NCT05982184.…”
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National utilization of rib fracture fixation in the geriatric population in the United States by Jennifer M. Brewer, Leah Aakjar, Kelsey Sullivan, Vijay Jayaraman, Manuel Moutinho, Elan Jeremitsky, Andrew R. Doben

“…Conclusions By conservative standards and the well-established Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma clinical practice guidelines, SSRF is underutilized. Our data suggest that SSRF may be very beneficial for the geriatric population, specifically those aged 65 to 79 years with any rib fractures. …”
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Application of the <italic>International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Rehabilitation Set</italic> in Rehabilitation of Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis in... by YAO Dong, HE Yiqi, ZHANG Qin, LIU Changhua, LI Taibiao, YAO Caiming, WANG Xiangfeng, WANG Qinfeng, HU Hongjun

“…Personalized rehabilitation programs were formulated according to the severity of functional disorders referring to the "<italic>Clinical Practice Guidelines of Traditional Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation for Knee Osteoarthritis</italic>". …”
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High-Dose Amoxicillin with Clavulanate for the Treatment of Acute Otitis Media in Children by Chia-Huei Chu, Mao-Che Wang, Liang-Yu Lin, Tzong-Yang Tu, Chii-Yuan Huang, Wen-Huei Liao, Ching-Yin Ho, An-Suey Shiao

“…This study uses the acute otitis media clinical practice guideline proposed in 2004 as a reference to evaluate whether antibiotics doses that are in line with the recommendations lead to better prognosis. …”
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Rationale, design and objectives of two phase III, randomised, placebo-controlled studies of GLPG1690, a novel autotaxin inhibitor, in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (ISABELA 1 and... by Kevin K Brown, Toby M Maher, Michael Kreuter, David J Lederer, Wim Wuyts, Nadia Verbruggen, Simone Stutvoet, Ann Fieuw, Paul Ford, Walid Abi-Saab, Marlies Wijsenbeek

“…Key secondary endpoints are week 52 composite endpoint of disease progression or all-cause mortality (defined as composite endpoint of first occurrence of ≥10% absolute decline in per cent predicted FVC or all-cause mortality at week 52); time to first respiratory-related hospitalisation until end of study; and week 52 change from baseline in the St George’s Respiratory Questionnaire total score (a quality-of-life measure).Ethics and dissemination Studies will be conducted in accordance with Good Clinical Practice guidelines, Declaration of Helsinki principles, and local ethical and legal requirements. …”
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Impact of a Novel Insulin Management Service on Non-insulin Pharmaceutical Expenses by John E. Schneider, Anjani Parikh, Ivana Stojanovic

“…# Background Studies have shown that improvements in glycemic control are associated with avoidance or delayed onset of diabetes complications, improvements in health-related quality of life, and reductions in diabetes-related health care costs. Clinical practice guidelines recommend maintaining a hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) level less than 7%, but among type 2 diabetes patients using insulin, two-thirds have HbA1c above 7% and one-third have HbA1c above 9%…”
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Effectiveness of interventions for middle-aged and ageing population with neck pain: a systematic review and network meta-analysis protocol by Alison B Rushton, Nicola R Heneghan, Taweewat Wiangkham, Uchukarn Boonyapo, Piyameth Dilokthornsakul, Nattawan Phungwattanakul

“…Introduction Neck pain (NP) is a common musculoskeletal complaint and is increasing in prevalence. Current clinical practice guidelines and systematic reviews recommended conservative, pharmacological and invasive interventions for individuals with NP. …”
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