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Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) for Pneumococcal Vaccines for Immunocompromised Adults

MMWR recomm. rep; 61 (40), 2012
GRADE was used to evaluate 13-valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV13) and 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV23) for routine use among immunocompromised adults. Evidence of benefits, harms, values and preferences, and cost-effectiveness were reviewed in accordance with GRADE methods...

Guía para la elección de tratamiento anticoagulante oral en la prevención de las complicaciones tromboembólicas asociadas a la fibrilación auricular no valvular

El objetivo fundamental de este documento es establecer recomendaciones, basadas en criterios de eficacia, seguridad y eficiencia, para la elección del tratamiento anticoagulante destinado a la prevención de las complicaciones tromboembolias asociadas a la fibrilación auricular no valvula....

Smokeless tobacco: South Asian communities

This guideline covers people living in England with ancestral links to Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan or Sri Lanka who use traditional South Asian varieties of smokeless tobacco. The aim is to help them stop using tobacco that is placed in the mouth or nose (but not burned). It does not include oral ...

Neutropenic sepsis: prevention and management in people with cancer

This guideline covers preventing, identifying and managing neutropenic sepsis in children, young people and adults receiving treatment for cancer in the community and in secondary and tertiary care. It aims to reduce the risk of infection in people with neutropenia (low number of white blood cells) who a...

Urinary incontinence in neurological disease: assessment and management

This guideline covers assessing and managing urinary incontinence in children, young people and adults with neurological disease. It aims to improve care by recommending specific treatments based on what symptoms and neurological conditions people have....

Peripheral arterial disease: diagnosis and management

This guideline covers diagnosing and managing peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in people aged 18 and over. Rapid changes in diagnostic methods, endovascular treatments and vascular services associated with new specialties in surgery and interventional radiology have resulted in considerable uncertainty ...

Type 2 diabetes: prevention in people at high risk

This guideline covers how to identify adults at high risk of type 2 diabetes. It aims to remind practitioners that age is no barrier to being at high risk of, or developing, the condition. It also aims to help them provide those at high risk with an effective and appropriate intensive lifestyle-change pr...

Sickle cell disease: managing acute painful episodes in hospital

This guideline covers managing acute painful sickle cell episodes in children, young people and adults who present at hospital, from presentation until when they are discharged. It aims to reduce variation in how acute episodes are managed in hospital, focusing on effective, prompt and safe pain relief. ...