Therefore, the recommendation defined by the working group did not take into consideration the effects of this procedure on the effectiveness of the intervention.
Whole-body CT scan is appropriate for monitoring extra-cardiac manifestations/complications of IE, but to date there is no clear recommendation defining the setting in which it should be used.
The collective scoring was established using a methodology derived from the RAND/UCLA appropriateness method; after elimination of the extreme values (outliers), the median of values attributed to each proposed recommendation defined agreement between the experts when the median value was between seven and nine, disagreement between one and three, and indecision between four and six.
We based the glucose threshold on the consensus recommendation defined by the American Diabetes Association Workgroup on Hypoglycemia [ 16].
The European Directive 96/29/Euratom of 13/05/1996, based on the ICRP 60 Recommendations, defines basic safety standards for the protection of the health of workers and the general public against the dangers arising from ionising radiation.
No respondent had conflicting recommendations, defined as recommending neuroimaging for a group with a lower risk than a group for which they had recommended against neuroimaging.
Another advantage is the predefined sequence of terms, as it can enrich the recommendations, defining a previous order to display the recommended resources.
The 2013 British NHS recommendations define a similar target population but only recommend the PPV-23 vaccine in adults [ 18].
The recommendations define family planning services as contraceptive care, pregnancy testing and counseling, achieving pregnancy, basic infertility care, sexually transmitted disease services, and preconception health.
These unsupervised recommendations are later combined with supervised recommendations defined in terms of RF interactions.
