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The purpose of these guidelines is to provide evidence-based recommendations about prevention of VTE in hospitalized and nonhospitalized medical patients and long-distance travelers. The target audience includes patients, hematologists, general practitioners, internists, hospitalists, other clinicians, pharmacists, and decision makers. Policy makers interested in these guidelines include those involved in developing local, national, or international programs aiming to reduce the incidence of VTE or to evaluate direct and indirect harms and costs related to VTE. This document may also serve as the basis for adaptation by local, regional, or national guideline panels.
The guideline panel determined that there is low certainty in the evidence for a net health benefit from using LMWH over UFH in acutely ill medical patients. Other EtD criteria were generally in favor of using LMWH so that the desirable consequences were greater than the undesirable consequences. This recommendation includes stroke patients, despite a slightly higher bleeding risk with LMWH compared with UFH among stroke patients in our systematic review. The panel judged that the consequences from using LMWH were favorable compared with the consequences of using UFH.
The guideline panel determined that there is moderate certainty in the evidence for net health harm given the increased bleeding risk from using a DOAC compared with LMWH in acutely ill medical inpatients, both for inpatient use and extended use. Other EtD criteria generally favored LMWH use in hospital only because the undesirable effects of DOACs were greater than the desirable consequences. The panel considered that the EtDs were formulated using RCTs that tested 3 DOACs, but there was no heterogeneity observed in the systematic review, and the drugs have the same mechanism of action. The panel prioritized symptomatic over asymptomatic VTE, and the latter were included in the trial end points. However, inclusion of asymptomatic VTE in our analysis would not have changed interpretation of the relative effects of treatment. A strong recommendation was warranted given the overall moderate certainty in the evidence and minimal absolute effects on mortality and VTE compared with the increased bleeding risk from DOACs.
The guideline panel determined that there is low certainty in the evidence for net health harm from using extended compared with in-hospital prophylaxis. Other EtD criteria were generally in favor of using in-hospital prophylaxis only, because the undesirable consequences were greater than the desirable consequences in acutely ill medical patients, leading to a recommendation for shorter prophylaxis.
The guideline panel used indirect evidence from acutely ill medical patients that evaluated extended outpatient prophylaxis and determined that there is low certainty in the evidence for net health harm from that evidence in medical outpatients with minor provoking factors for VTE. Through extrapolation, the other EtD criteria were generally not in favor of using prophylaxis, because the undesirable consequences were greater than the desirable consequences in these patients. Given that this recommendation was based on indirect data and extrapolation, further research is required. The recommendation against thromboprophylaxis in medical outpatients with minor provoking factors for VTE, cost of treatment in this population, probable inequity of a recommendation, and lack of general acceptability were additional undesirable consequences.
Introduction: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) accounts for a high proportion of paediatric outpatient visits in Australia. Shared care by general practitioners (GPs) would deliver more timely care, closer to home, however GPs indicated the need for interprofessional training support. This study describes the use of Project ECHO, a guided practice model, to support GPs with ADHD management, by connecting them virtually with an interprofessional team of paediatric specialists using a structured methodology.
The price tag of sequencing the human genome has fallen exponentially from US $3 billion in 2001 to less than US $1000 in 2016. Unprecedented knowledge of genome diversity gleaned from sequencing the entire genomes of thousands of people have enabled the design of commercial genotyping microarrays that are able to query almost a million genetic variants, including those with the ability to inform pharmacogenomic therapy, at a cost of less than US $50. At such price points, genetic information can be synthesised at a more attainable cost and augmented with the health records of an individual even before the need for medication arises. This circumvents a weakness described above regarding the speed, or lack thereof, of producing the test results in a timely fashion to be of practical use. Technological innovations have also fashioned a market for direct-to-consumer genetic tests, where the decision to genotype is taken by the individual instead of the health-care provider. Rapid point-of-care test kits also mean that general practitioners and specialists alike can order a genetic test, without necessarily involving a laborious and specialised process chain ranging from DNA extraction to bioinformatics interpretations. These developments greatly enhance the accessibility of genetic tests to both physician and patient, and lay the foundation for pharmacogenomics to play a bigger role in health care.
The implementation of genomic medicine requires the seamless integration of genetic information with medical records. Ideally, this genetic-compatible health-care database has to be accessible throughout the different health-care sectors from primary to tertiary care, in order to avoid the imbalance of care provision that may arise when one care sector (usually the specialist or tertiary care) is privileged to additional information over another care sector (such as the general practitioners offering primary care), when drug prescriptions are made by physicians throughout the spectrum of care sectors. However, few health systems in the world currently possess a data grid that is simultaneously able to accommodate and display genetic information, and yet accessible by all care sectors.