In guidelines of german association of urology (DGU) in 2004 there has been a restricted recommendation for prostatectomy in patients 70 years or older.
In western conventional medicine (WCM), guidelines of British association for psychopharmacology (BAP) recommend that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an effective treatment for insomnia delivered either individually or in small group format (Ia), and has been found to be as effective as prescription medications for short-term treatment of chronic insomnia (Ia) [ 9].
This underscores the recommendation of treatment guidelines of diabetes associations to regularly assess both BP and UAE in individual patients with diabetes.
However, it is not clear from their article whether they have selected signals consistent in strength and direction, as suggested in our paper and in the guidelines for replication of association results [ 8], what may compromise to some extent their results.
Autonomic nervous function was assessed according to the guidelines of German diabetes association.
The animals were maintained and used in accordance to the guidelines of the Brazilian association for laboratory animal science.
Participants included in the control group will be treated and supervised according to good clinical practice based on the evidence-based guidelines of the Dutch association of occupational physicians [ 37, 38].
Animal care and handling procedures were performed in accordance with the guidelines of the international association for the study of pain and all the experiments received prior approval from the UFMG (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil) ethics committee.
In the protocol and training sessions, nursing home physicians are instructed to use the guidelines of the Dutch association of nursing home physicians (Verenso) for prescribing psychotropic medication [ 48].
Similar guidelines of national professional associations have also been established, as for instance the demand of the two biggest German professional associations of psychologists to evaluate every psychometric ability measure at least every eight years with respect to test norm obsolescence [16].
The actual availability of the technology, however, cannot be described in any clear-cut way, as it will be determined by the laws and regulations of a given country, the international and national guidelines of the professional associations, and the prevailing social and cultural norms in a population.
