After intense education efforts in the developing world through his charity SafePoint, established in 2005, and years of lobbying WHO director-general Margaret Chan for the introduction of guidelines promoting auto-disable technology, Koska is well aware that today's announcement will only be the next step in efforts to make the single-use syringe widely used across the globe.
The introduction of guidelines and adoption of standardised internationally agreed methods is needed.
We endeavor to assess the impact of introduction of guidelines for preoperative investigations (PIs) on anesthetic practices and costs and compare their efficacy to current practices.
The introduction of guidelines in the different biomarker stages has been described as an approach of quality assessment of the biomarkers and standards for designing and reporting biomarker studies have been proposed [26].
Studies that evaluated the introduction of guidelines targeted at undergraduate medical students were excluded.
Introduction of guidelines for anti-infective therapy into clinical practice has been shown to improve outcomes on ICU [ 13, 14].
Successful interventions to reduce BP in low-income countries include health education, worksite exercise breaks, training of health care staff, and introduction of guidelines (119).
The 'snapshot' of corticosteroid prescribing was for the 2007 calendar year and there may have been practice changes, such as the introduction of guidelines, since that time.
Whilst even with the introduction of guidelines, analgesic prescribing in patients with low back pain has not been shown to change [ 7].
They then observed that, following the introduction of guidelines on responsible reporting, suicidal acts dropped dramatically to a level that has been sustained since [ 19, 20, 26, 32].
