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22 February 2019
Concise guideline
General (Internal) Medicine
Geriatric Medicine
Delirium (acute confusional state) is a common condition in the elderly, affecting up to 30% of all older patients admitted to hospital. The hospital environment often precipitates or exacerbates episodes of delirium. Patients who develop delirium have high mortality, institutionalisation and complication rates and have longer lengths of stay than non-delirious patients. Delirium is often not recognised by clinicians and is often poorly managed.
22 February 2019
Concise guideline
General (Internal) Medicine
Renal Medicine
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is often thought to be a relatively rare condition requiring specialist care. However, early CKD is common and referral of all patients would completely overwhelm existing specialist services.
22 February 2019
Concise guideline
General (Internal) Medicine
Rehabilitation Medicine
Depression is increasingly recognised as a common sequel to brain injury and the use of antidepressant medication in this context has increased markedly over recent years. However, these drugs are not without side effects – some of them serious – and they should not be used without proper evaluation and monitoring to guide clinicians working with people who have brain injury of any cause (eg stroke, trauma, anoxia or infection).
23 April 2020
Guideline
The Prolonged disorders of consciousness national clinical guidelines are a major contribution to clinical and ethical standards of care for people with prolonged disorders of consciousness (PDOC) – including vegetative (VS) and minimally conscious states (MCS) – following sudden onset brain injury, not only in the UK but internationally. For England and Wales, they provide much-needed clarity on legal decision-making.
27 October 2015
Working party report
A guide to practical care, particularly towards the end of life.
28 October 2015
Guidance
Nutrition
A series of 'top ten tips' produced by the RCP's Nutrition Committee.
16 November 2015
Guidance
A series of 'top ten tips' produced by the RCP's Healthcare Associated Infections working group as a response to the rise in healthcare associated infection (HCAI).
15 April 2019
Project information
Cardiology
Paediatric Cardiology
Clinical effectiveness and evaluation
The register aims to establish how effective current therapies, offered for FH, are in children with the condition.
20 January 2017
Audit
Transfusion Medicine
Clinical effectiveness and evaluation
The National Comparative Audit of Blood Transfusion is commissioned and managed by NHS Blood and Transplant. It seeks to engage all NHS and independent hospitals in the UK, occasionally including hospitals in the Republic of Ireland and New Zealand, to audit blood transfusion practice and drive improvements for the benefit of patients.
4 October 2017
Project information
International
Mentoring
The East, Central and Southern Africa College of Physicians' (ECSACoP's) strategic plan for developing well-trained physicians across the region.