NICE clinical guidelines

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

Recommendations cover;

• Secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease in people with peripheral arterial disease
• Diagnosis
• Imaging for revascularisation
• Management of intermittent claudication

Recommendations cover:

• Targeting risk assessment
• Methods of risk assessment

Recommendations cover

• Principles of care
• Physical therapy (physiotherapy and/or occupational therapy)
• Botulinum toxin type A
• Intrathecal baclofen

The recommendations from NICE cover:

• Diagnostic investigations for deep vein thrombosis
• Pharmacological interventions
• Deep vein thrombosis
• Mechanical interventions
• Investigations for cancer.

The recommendations from NICE cover:

• Individualised assessment at presentation
• Primary analgesia
• Reassessment and ongoing management
• Possible acute complications
• Settings and training.

The recommendations from NICE cover:

• General principles of care
• Identification and assessment
• Organisation and delivery of care

The recommendations from NICE cover:

• Risk assessment
• Timing of endoscopy
• Management of non-variceal bleeding
• Management of variceal bleeding
• Control of bleeding and prevention of re-bleeding in patients on NSAIDs, aspirin or clopidogrel.

• Communication
• Starting strong opioids—titrating the dose
• First-line maintenance treatment
• First-line treatment if oral opioids are not suitable—transdermal patches
• Management of constipation.

The recommendations from NICE cover:

• Standard principles:
  • general advice
  • hand decontamination
  • use of personal protective treatment
  • safe use and disposal of sharps
  • waste disposal
• Long-term urinary catheters
• Enteral feeding
• Vascular access devices.

The recommendations from NICE cover:

• Knowing the patient as an individual
• Essential requirements of care, including:
  • respect for the patient
  • patient concerns
  • nutrition
• Tailoring healthcare services for each patient
• Continuity of care and relationships
• Enabling patients to actively participate in their care.

The recommendations from NICE cover:

• Coping with epilepsy
• Diagnosis
• Investigations
• Pharmacological treatment
• Psychological interventions
• Referral for complex or refractory epilepsy
• Provision of information.

The recommendations from NICE cover:

• Care and support across all points on the care pathway:
  • Relationships and communication
  • Providing information
  • Decisions, capacity, and safeguarding
• Access to care
• Community care
• Assessment and referral in a crisis.

The recommendations from NICE cover:

• Identifying patients who are potential donors
• Seeking consent to organ donation
• Approaching people who are close to the patient
• Discussions in all cases
• Organisation of the identification, referral, and consent processes.

The recommendations from NICE cover:

• Documenting the suspected anaphylactic reaction
• Confirming the anaphylactic reaction
• Care of adults and young people aged 16 years or older
• Care of children younger than 16 years
• Follow up to emergency treatment.