To do this, we formulated questions requiring answers for the clinical management of our patients and consulted bibliographic sources and international guidelines with the aim of adapting them to the Argentine situation.
The MDT should implement an agreed treatment strategy in rectal cancer patients based on nationally accepted guidelines with the aim of standardising and improving outcomes (2001 20044).
Services, staffing requirements and management systems were defined by operational guidelines with the aim of promoting universal coverage across the country [ 7, 8].
For minor adverse events, for example those recorded on the symptoms questionnaire, the nurse and, if necessary, the GP, advised palliative treatments, using guidelines, with the aim of keeping the patient in the trial on their randomised treatment.
The complexity surrounding identification of those patients requiring further investigation has led to the production of several guidelines, all with the aim of facilitating earlier diagnosis.
This paper reviews foreign guidelines with the aim to consolidate key aspects of space design characteristics to support the quality care concept for outpatient facility.
17 Especially for HIV, GPs could play a more proactive role in testing high-risk groups by closer adherence to the guidelines, with the aim to access the population unaware of their positive HIV status, which is still quite high in the Netherlands (estimated in 2008 at 40%188).
Inspired by BI-RADS and to improve the diagnostics of PCa, the same group of prostate MR imaging experts published in 2012 a set of clinical guidelines with the aim to standardize the interpretation and to report the different parametric MR-techniques: the Prostate Imaging and Reporting Archiving Data System (PI-RADS) [ 2].
Clinical guidelines: clinical guidelines are documents with the aim of guiding decisions and criteria in specific areas of healthcare, as defined by an authoritative examination of current evidence (evidence-based medicine).
The Education Department's civil rights office has issued new guidelines for schools with the aim of making campuses safer.
