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Neutropenic sepsis: prevention and management in people with cancer (CG151)
This guideline covers preventing, identifying and managing neutropenic sepsis in children, young people and adults receiving treatment for cancer in the community and in secondary and tertiary care. It aims to reduce the risk of infection in people with neutropenia (low number of white blood cells) who are receiving anticancer treatment and improve management of neutropenic sepsis.
This guideline covers some aspects of assessing and managing hearing loss in primary, community and secondary care. It aims to improve the quality of life for adults with hearing loss by advising healthcare staff on assessing hearing difficulties, managing earwax and referring people for audiological or specialist assessment and management.
This guideline covers managing lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in men over 18. It aims to improve the quality of life for men with LUTS by recommending which assessments they should receive, and when conservative management, drug treatment and surgery can help.
This quality standard covers assessing and managing hearing loss in adults (aged 18 and over). It includes people presenting with hearing loss for the first time in adulthood whether it started in adulthood or earlier. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS185
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Earwax removal
- Quality statement 2: Sudden onset of hearing loss
- Quality statement 3: Rapid worsening of hearing loss
- Quality statement 4: Audiological assessment
- Quality statement 5: Provision of hearing aids
- Quality statement 6: Follow-up audiology appointment
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Peginterferon alfa and ribavirin for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C (TA200)
Evidence-based recommendations on peginterferon alfa (Pegasys; ViraferonPeg) and ribavirin for treating chronic hepatitis C in adults.
Question Antifungals to prevent fungal infection during antibiotic treatment for late-onset neonatal infection: What is the...
Question Laboratory tests to diagnose initial and ongoing infection and determine re-infection in the different...
This guideline covers preventing infective endocarditis (IE) in children, young people and adults. It focuses on people at increased risk of infective endocarditis undergoing dental, gastrointestinal tract, genitourinary and respiratory tract procedures.
This guideline covers preventing, identifying and managing latent and active tuberculosis (TB) in children, young people and adults. It aims to improve ways of finding people who have TB in the community and recommends that everyone under 65 with latent TB should be treated. It describes how TB services should be organised, including the role of the TB control board.
Child maltreatment: when to suspect maltreatment in under 18s (CG89)
This guideline covers the signs of possible child maltreatment in children and young people aged under 18 years. It aims to raise awareness and help healthcare professionals who are not child protection specialists to identify the features of physical, sexual and emotional abuse, neglect and fabricated or induced illness.
This guideline covers care before, during and after a planned knee, hip or shoulder replacement. It includes recommendations to ensure that people are given full information about their options for surgery, including anaesthesia. It offers advice for healthcare professionals on surgical procedures and ensuring safety during operations. It also offers guidance on providing support and rehabilitation before and after surgery.
This guideline covers the care of women with a singleton pregnancy at increased risk of, or with symptoms and signs of, preterm labour (before 37 weeks), and women with a singleton pregnancy having a planned preterm birth. It aims to reduce the risks of preterm birth for the baby and describes treatments to prevent or delay early labour and birth.
This quality standard covers the effective use of antimicrobial medicines (including antibiotics) to reduce the risk of antimicrobial resistance, which is when antimicrobial medicines lose their effectiveness. It covers all settings and all types of antimicrobials for treating bacterial, fungal, viral and parasitic infections. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS121
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Advice on self-limiting conditions
- Quality statement 2: Back-up (delayed) prescribing
- Quality statement 3: Recording information
- Quality statement 4: Microbiological samples
- Quality statement 5: Data collection and feedback
- Quality statement 6 (developmental statement): electronic prescribing systems
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SepsiTest assay for rapidly identifying bloodstream bacteria and fungi (HTG400)
Evidence-based recommendations on the SepsiTest assay for rapidly identifying bloodstream bacteria and fungi.
Evidence-based recommendations on tixagevimab plus cilgavimab (Evusheld) for preventing COVID-19 in adults.