Peter Hauri, a psychologist who was among the first researchers to study the mysterious mechanics of a good night's sleep, and who established widely used guidelines for avoiding insomnia without drugs, died on Jan . 31in Rochester, Minn., where he had been director of the Mayo Sleep Disorders Center until he retired in 2000.
The majority of respondents (74%) used guidelines or institutional protocols for monitoring.
Non-physicians used guidelines more often than physicians and weighted radiation dose as being more important.
Using the commonly used guidelines proposed by Cohen (1988), this result suggests a very large effect size.
Lower weighting of radiation dose was related to admitting referrals unlikely to affect treatment (Figs. 2 and 3) and not having used guidelines (Fig. 4).
Our single-center study can probably be extrapolated to other centers, because our protocol was performed in accordance with the widely used guidelines of Warren et al. [4].
Although routinely used, guidelines do not provide detailed management of patients with TTM, especially how to adapt associated therapies such as sedation or nutrition.
The proportion that had used guidelines was higher for non-physicians (72.3%) than for general practitioners (19.5%) and hospital physicians (19.7%) (p < 0.001, chi-squared tests).
However, commonly used guidelines often only prescribe optimal conditions for WH which results in many sites which may be suitable being over looked.
Since in Argentina there is not an accepted universal criterion to define a threshold for cost-effectiveness ratio, we used guidelines specifically intended for international comparisons, as proposed by the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health [42].
Study appraisal and synthesis methods: We used guidelines from the Cochrane Handbook of Systematic Reviews of Interventions and a modified version of the Newcastle Ottawa Scale overall to assess the quality of the included studies.
