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This guideline covers decision-making in people 16 years and over who may lack capacity now or in the future. It aims to help health and social care practitioners support people to make their own decisions where they have the capacity to do so. It also helps practitioners to keep people who lack capacity at the centre of the decision-making process.
COVID-19 rapid guideline: managing the long-term effects of COVID-19 (NG188)
This guideline covers identifying, assessing and managing the long-term effects of COVID-19, often described as ‘long COVID’. It makes recommendations on care in all healthcare settings for adults, children and young people who have new or ongoing symptoms 4 weeks or more after the start of acute COVID-19. It also includes advice on organising services for long COVID.
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Fever in under 5s: assessment and initial management (NG143)
This guideline covers the assessment and early management of fever with no obvious cause in children aged under 5. It aims to improve clinical assessment and help healthcare professionals diagnose serious illness among young children who present with fever in primary and secondary care.
Guselkumab for treating active psoriatic arthritis after inadequate response to DMARDs (TA815)
Evidence-based recommendations on guselkumab (Tremfya) for active psoriatic arthritis after inadequate response to DMARDs in adults.
This quality standard covers diagnosing, assessing and managing cerebral palsy in children and young people under 25. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Follow-up for children with major risk factors for cerebral palsy
- Quality statement 2: Referral for children with delayed motor milestones
- Quality statement 3: Information for parents and carers of children and young people with cerebral palsy
- Quality statement 4: Personal folders for children and young people with cerebral palsy
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This quality standard covers diagnosing and managing gallstones in adults. It also includes managing complications of gallstones, such as an inflamed or infected gallbladder (cholecystitis), blocked and infected bile ducts (cholangitis), and an inflamed pancreas (pancreatitis). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Acute cholecystitis
- Quality statement 2: Urgent endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography within 72 hours
- Quality statement 3: Emergency endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography within 24 hours
- Quality statement 4: Advice to prevent symptoms
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Self-expanding implant insertion into the intersphincteric space for faecal incontinence (HTG564)
Evidence-based recommendations on self-expanding implant insertion into the intersphincteric space for faecal incontinence. This involves inserting implants that expand and press together, forming a ring that creates an artificial sphincter.
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In the Labonte model, physiological impacts refer to the direct effects on the body’s systems and functions due to factors such as stress, lifestyle choices, and environmental conditions.
Evidence-based recommendations on on regorafenib (Stivarga) for previously treated gastrointestinal stromal tumours in adults.
Tofacitinib for treating active ankylosing spondylitis (TA920)
Evidence-based recommendations on tofacitinib (Xeljanz) for treating active ankylosing spondylitis.
This guideline covers complex rehabilitation needs after traumatic injury, including assessment and goal setting, rehabilitation plans and programmes, physical, psychological and cognitive rehabilitation, rehabilitation for specific injuries, coordination of rehabilitation in hospital, at discharge and in the community, and commissioning and organising rehabilitation services.
Alcohol interventions in secondary and further education (NG135)
This guideline covers interventions in secondary and further education to prevent and reduce alcohol use among children and young people aged 11 up to and including 18. It also covers people aged 11 to 25 with special educational needs or disabilities in full-time education. It will also be relevant to children aged 11 in year 6 of primary school.
This quality standard covers care for adults before, during and after primary elective hip, knee or shoulder joint replacement. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement. It does not cover joint replacement as treatment for primary or secondary cancer affecting the bones.
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- Quality statement 1: Preoperative rehabilitation advice for hip and knee replacement
- Statement 2: Choice between partial and total knee replacement
- Statement 3: Tranexamic acid during hip and knee replacement
- Quality statement 4: Preventing implant selection errors
- Statement 5: Postoperative rehabilitation
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Upadacitinib for treating active non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (TA861)
Evidence-based recommendations on upadacitinib (Rinvoq) for treating active non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis in adults.