Conformance Checking Methodology Across Discharge Summaries and Standard Treatment Guidelines

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Veera Raghavendra Chikka ◽  
Kamalakar Karlapalem
Keyword(s):  
Standard Treatment ◽  
Treatment Guidelines ◽  
Conformance Checking ◽  
Standard Treatment Guidelines ◽  
Discharge Summaries

scholarly journals Changes to the ART guidelines – an overview

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Celicia Serenata
Keyword(s):  
Antiretroviral Therapy ◽  
South African ◽  
Standard Treatment ◽  
Treatment Guidelines ◽  
Dual Therapy ◽  
National Standard ◽  
Child Transmission ◽  
Task Team ◽  
Standard Treatment Guidelines ◽  
Mother To Child

In 2009 the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) Treatment Technical Task Team (TTT) finalised recommendations for changes to the national standard treatment guidelines for adult and paediatric management and treatment, as well as changes in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) guidelines, moving away from monotherapy to dual therapy. President Zuma announced changes in the national antiretroviral therapy (ART) programme on World AIDS Day 2009. Subsequently additional changes were made to the treatment guidelines to be in line with these new Presidential mandates, which came into effect on 1 April 2010.

scholarly journals Incidence and Diversity of Antimicrobial Multidrug Resistance Profiles of Uropathogenic Bacteria

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inês Linhares ◽  
Teresa Raposo ◽  
António Rodrigues ◽  
Adelaide Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Standard Treatment ◽  
Treatment Guidelines ◽  
Empirical Therapy ◽  
Multidrug Resistant ◽  
Antibiotic Resistant ◽  
Resistance Determinants ◽  
Standard Treatment Guidelines ◽  
Tract Infections ◽  
Uropathogenic Bacteria ◽  
High Diversity

The aim of this study was to assess the most frequent multidrug resistant (MDR) profiles of the main bacteria implicated in community-acquired urinary tract infections (UTI). Only the MDR profiles observed in, at least, 5% of the MDR isolates were considered. A quarter of the bacteria were MDR and the most common MDR profile, including resistance to penicillins, quinolones, and sulfonamides (antibiotics with different mechanisms of action, all mainly recommended by the European Association of Urology for empirical therapy of uncomplicated UTI), was observed, alone or in association with resistance to other antimicrobial classes, in the main bacteria implicated in UTI. The penicillin class was included in all the frequent MDR profiles observed in the ten main bacteria and was the antibiotic with the highest prescription during the study period. The sulfonamides class, included in five of the six more frequent MDR profiles, was avoided between 2000 and 2009. The results suggest that the high MDR percentage and the high diversity of MDR profiles result from a high prescription of antibiotics but also from antibiotic-resistant genes transmitted with other resistance determinants on mobile genetic elements and that the UTI standard treatment guidelines must be adjusted for the community of Aveiro District.

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