NICE clinical guidelines

The recommendations from NICE cover:

• Cardiac rehabilitation after an acute myocardial infarction (MI)
• Lifestyle changes after an MI
• Drug therapy
• Coronary revascularisation after an MI
• Selected patient subgroups
• Communication of diagnosis and advice

The recommendations from NICE cover:

• Assessment and investigation
• Lifestyle interventions
• Physical therapies
• Behavioural therapies
• Neurostimulation
• Alternative conservative management options
• Pharmacological treatment
• The multidisciplinary team
• Invasive procedures for overactive bladder
• Surgical approaches for stress urinary incontinence
• Maintaining and measuring expertise and standards for practice
• Information to facilitate discussion of risks and benefits of treatments for women with stress urinary incontinence

The recommendations from NICE cover:

• General principles of care
• Families and carers
• Specific interventions for the core features of autism
• Interventions for behaviour that challenges
• Interventions for life skills
• Interventions for autism that should not be used
• Interventions for coexisting problems
• Transition to adult services

The recommendations from NICE cover:

• Long-term outcomes of acute kidney injury
• Rapid referral to nephrology services for moderate to severe acute kidney
• Definition of acute kidney injury—system for staging and detection
• Introducing renal replacement therapy
• Preventing deterioration

The recommendations from NICE cover:

• Information for people with varicose veins
• Referral to a vascular service
• Assessment and treatment in a vascular service
• Management during pregnancy

The recommendations from NICE cover:

• Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and fibrinolysis in people with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) who present very early
• Primary PCI and fibrinolysis in people with acute STEMI who have a long anticipated transfer time for primary PCI
• Radial arterial access primary PCI versus femoral arterial access primary PCI
• Culprit vessel primary PCI versus multivessel PCI
• Relationship between volume of procedures and clinical outcomes

The recommendations from NICE cover:

• Adults, children and young people
• Severity of ulcerative colitis
• Patient information and support
• Inducing remission in people with ulcerative colitis
• Information about treatment options for people who are considering surgery
• Maintaining remission in people with ulcerative colitis
• Pregnant women
• Monitoring

The recommendations from NICE cover:

• Patient information
• Assessment and referral in primary care
• Assessment of liver disease in secondary specialist care
• Genotype testing
• Antiviral treatment
• Monitoring
• Surveillance testing for hepatocellular carcinoma in adults with chronic hepatitis B

The recommendations from NICE cover:

• Clinical significance of a family history of breast cancer
• Information and support
• Care of people in primary care
• Care of people in secondary care and specialist genetic clinics
• Genetic testing
• Surveillance and strategies for early detection of breast cancer
• Risk reduction and treatment strategies

The recommendations from NICE cover:

• Awareness of clinical features of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
• Diagnosis
• Information and support
• Prognosis
• Management
• Review and follow-up

The recommendations from NICE cover:

• Organising health and social care for people needing rehabilitation after stroke
• Planning and delivering stroke rehabilitation
• Providing support and information/li>
• Cognitive functioning
• Emotional functioning
• Vision
• Swallowing
• Communication
• Movement
• Self-care
• Long-term health and social support

The recommendations from NICE cover:

• Preventing falls in older people during a hospital stay
• Preventing falls in older people.

The recommendations from NICE cover:

• Thermometers and the detection of fever
• Clinical assessment of children with fever
• Management by remote assessment
• Management by the non-paediatric practitioner
• Management by the paediatric specialist
• Antipyretic interventions
• Advice for home care

The recommendations from NICE cover:

• General principles of care in mental health and general medical settings
• Identification and assessment of adults
• Interventions for adults with social anxiety disorder
• Identification and assessment of children and young people
• Interventions for children and young people with social anxiety disorder
• Interventions that are not recommended to treat social anxiety disorder
• Specific phobias

Recommendations cover:

• General principles of care
• Selective prevention
• Identification and assessment
• Identifying effective treatment and care options
• Psychosocial interventions: treatment and indicated prevention
• Pharmacological interventions
• Organisation and delivery of care

Recommendations cover:

• Dietary management: children, young people and adults
• Phosphate binders: children and young people
• Phosphate binders: adults
• Phosphate binders: children, young people and adults
• Review of treatments: children, young people and adults

Recommendations cover:

• Principles of care
• Initial advice to people concerned about delays in conception
• Investigation of fertility problems and management strategies
• Medical and surgical management of male factor fertility problems
• Ovulation disorders
• Tubal and uterine surgery
• Medical and surgical management of endometriosis
• Unexplained infertility
• Intrauterine insemination
• Prediction of IVF success
• Access criteria for IVF
• Procedures used during IVF treatment
• Intracytoplasmic sperm injection
• Donor insemination
• Oocyte donation
• People with cancer who wish to preserve fertility
• Long-term safety of assisted reproductive technologies for women with infertility and their children

Recommendations cover:

• General principles of care
• Possible psychosis
• First episode psychosis
• Subsequent acute episodes of psychosis or schizophrenia
• Referral in crisis and challenging behaviour
• Early post-acute period
• Promoting recovery and providing possible future care in primary care
• Promoting recovery and providing possible future care in secondary care

Recommendations cover:

• Support and information giving
• Early pregnancy assessment services
• Symptoms and signs of ectopic pregnancy and initial assessment
• Diagnosis of viable intrauterine pregnancy and of ectopic pregnancy
• Management of miscarriage
• Management of ectopic pregnancy
• Anti-D rhesus prophylaxis

Recommendations cover:

• Principles of care
• Assessment and referral
• Topical therapy
• Phototherapy (broad- or narrow-band UVB light and psoralen plus UVA light)
• Systemic therapy

Recommendations cover:

• Patient information and support
• Inducing remission in Crohn's disease
• Maintaining remission in Crohn's disease
• Maintaining remission in Crohn's disease after surgery
• Monitoring for osteopenia and assessing fracture risk
• Conception and pregnancy

Recommendations cover

• Information, support and training
• Reducing the risk of septic complications of anticancer treatment
• Managing suspected neutropenic sepsis in secondary and tertiary care
• Starting antibiotic therapy
• Managing confirmed neutropenic sepsis

Recommendations cover

• Assessment
• Diagnosis
• Migraine with aura
• Management
• Migraine with or without aura

Recommendations cover:

• Information and support
• Risk factors for infection and clinical indicators of possible infection
• Intrapartum antibiotics
• Investigations before starting antibiotics in the baby
• Antibiotics for suspected infection
• Duration of antibiotic treatment

Recommendations cover:

• Assessment of lower urinary tract dysfunction in patients with neurological conditions
• Treatment to improve bladder storage
• Treatment for stress incontinence
• Treatment to improve bladder emptying
• Management with catheter valves
• Treatment to prevent urinary tract infection