For example, the guidelines recommend the merging of several hospitals and the conversion of hospitals into long-term care facilities.
For example, the guidelines propose a revision of wage systems and reductions in the purchase prices of medical materials.
For example, the guidelines recommend that draft versions of patient information sheets should be passed to patients in disease support groups for comments.
For example, the 2004 guidelines of the Institute of Medicine specify a DRI of 4,700 mg of potassium (100 mEq), though most Americans consume only half that amount per day, which would make them formally deficient as regards this particular recommendation.
For example, the current guidelines of the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology recommend preoperative echocardiography only for people with dyspnoea of unknown cause or recent worsening of known congestive heart failure.
11 For example, the sedation guidelines of the American Society of Anesthesiologists indicate that SGDs are useful for airway rescue in oversedated patients.
For example, the dementia guidelines of the German Associations for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and for Neurology strongly (class I) recommend imaging, preferably by CMRT in the course of etiological diagnosis of dementia [ 25].
For example, in 1999, the guideline of the Dutch Society of General Practice NHGG) for prescribing cholesterol lowering drugs still included an upper age-limit of 70 years for men and 75 years for women.
For example, the OA guideline of the Royal College of Physicians specifically mentions the complexity of OA in terms of pain and range of structural pathology, that few useful subclassifications of OA exist with respect to targeted treatment, and that it is unclear in which way co-morbidity in patients with OA influences treatment outcome [ 4].
For example, the therapeutic guideline of propranolol for infantile hemangioma must be approved to formulary by the hospital's Pharmacotherapy Committee.
