Guidelines or diagnostic criteria in clinical practice assist physicians in their clinical decision-
making and improve health outcomes for patients. Diagnostic and classification criteria …

PURPOSE Many countries have national guidelines for the treatment of pharyngitis. We
wanted to compare the recommendations and the reported evidence in national guidelines …

Publisher Summary This chapter review and classify uncertainties in clinical medicine.
Epistemic uncertainty is intimately linked to the relationship between theory, evidence, and …

Background Over 90,000 total knee replacement (TKR) procedures are performed annually
in the United Kingdom (UK). Patients awaiting TKR face long delays whilst enduring severe …

Purpose The Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system treats approximately 3% of patients
with cancer in the United States each year. We measured the quality of nonmetastatic …

Hierarchies of evidence are an important and influential tool for appraising evidence in
medicine. In recent years, hierarchies have been formally adopted by organizations …

Las guías de práctica clínica son una de las principales herramientas utilizadas por los
sistemas de salud modernos y por los profesionales de la salud que practican una medicina …

The Bone & Joint Journal has published several consensus statements in recent years,
many of which have positively influenced clinical practice and policy. 1-13 However, even …

Perioperative complications such as stroke, delirium, and neurocognitive dysfunction are
common and responsible for increased morbidity and mortality. Our objective was to …

BACKGROUND Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and functional constipation (FC) are two
commonly encountered functional gastrointestinal disorders in clinical practice and are …