NGC Update Service: February 20, 2017

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) sent this bulletin at 02/20/2017 04:20 PM EST

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February 20, 2017

New This Week

Guideline Synthesis

Guideline Summaries

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma

Withdrawn Guideline Summaries

The guideline summaries listed below have been withdrawn from the NGC Web site because they no longer meet the NGC Inclusion Criteria. See the Guideline Summaries Archive for a complete list of summaries that have been withdrawn from NGC.

CancerControl Alberta

  • Adjuvant radiation for malignant melanoma.
  • Chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
  • Prostate cancer.

Announcements

How to Search by UMLS Codes

Learn more about how to search the NGC Web site by specific UMLS vocabulary codes.

Conference News

Registration is now open for the Evidence-based Guidelines Affecting Policy, Practice and Stakeholders (E-GAPPS III) Conference. It will be held March 20-21, 2017 at The New York Academy of Medicine. The event is sponsored by the Guidelines International Network North America (G-I-N NA) and NYAM's Section on Evidence Based Health Care (SEBHC). The conference is titled "Beyond Implementation: Are Clinical Guidelines Improving Healthcare Quality?"

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Advisory

February 2, 2017: Chlorhexidine Gluconate: FDA is warning that rare but serious allergic reactions have been reported with the widely used skin antiseptic products containing chlorhexidine gluconate. Although rare, the number of reports of serious allergic reactions to these products has increased over the last several years.

As a result, FDA is requesting the manufacturers of over-the-counter (OTC) antiseptic products containing chlorhexidine gluconate to add a warning about this risk to the Drug Facts labels.

AHRQ Announces Funding Opportunity for Developing Measures of Shared Decisionmaking

A new funding opportunity announcement from AHRQ solicits applications for research projects to develop, test and evaluate measures of shared decisionmaking for research conducted in clinical settings. Shared decisionmaking is a collaborative process in which patients and members of their clinical team make health care decisions that are informed by scientific evidence as well as patients' values and preferences. Each project is expected to produce valid and reliable measures of shared decisionmaking, along with instructions for implementing the measures and documentation on the development, testing and evaluation of the measures. The maximum cost for each project is $500,000 per year and $1.5 million for up to three years.

Health Awareness Topics: February 2017

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