The National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference on the Treatment of Destructive Behaviors: A Study in Professional Politics

2005 ◽  
pp. 483-498
Keyword(s):  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
Consensus Development ◽  
Consensus Development Conference ◽  
Destructive Behaviors

Just Say No!

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 624-624
Author(s):  
JOHN M. FREEMAN
Keyword(s):  
Febrile Seizure ◽  
Febrile Seizures ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
Consensus Development ◽  
Consensus Development Conference ◽  
Focal Seizures ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Neurologic Development

A seizure, even a febrile seizure, is terrifying to the family. Seeking reassurance that their child will not die and does not have epilepsy, parents turn to their physician. What is he or she to do? Often the physician prescribes medication "to prevent further seizures" and then reassures the family that the child will be fine if the medicine is given daily as directed. Both the recommendation and the reassurance are wrong. A Consensus Development Conference on Febrile Seizures held by the National Institutes of Health in 19801 concluded that they would only "consider" anticonvulsant prophylaxis when the child (1) had abnormal neurologic development, (2) had long or focal seizures, (3) had more than two seizures in 24 hours, (4) had a history of nonfebrile seizures in parent or sibling, or (5) was younger than 1 years of age.

An Appraisal of Liver Transplantation in Great Britain

1986 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
John G. O'Grady ◽  
Roger Williams
Keyword(s):  
Liver Transplantation ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Considerable Increase ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
Consensus Development ◽  
End Stage Liver Disease ◽  
Consensus Development Conference ◽  
King's College ◽  
End Stage

Since the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Development Conference (1983) concluded that liver transplantation was a procedure deserving of wider application to the treatment of end-stage liver disease, there has been a very considerable increase in the number of centers performing liver transplantation, in Europe as well as in the United States. The number of operations performed has increased logarithmically (Figure 1, in Höckerstedt and Kankaanpää, p. 453). With the detailed overall assessment of liver transplantation in Europe by Höckerstedt and Kankaanpää, we will take the opportunity to review the position in Great Britain from a physician's, i.e., non-surgeon's, viewpoint as seen from one of the two centers (Cambridge/King's College and Birmingham) currently recognized in this country. This is based on an experience of 255 cases dating from the first liver transplant performed in Great Britain by Professor Roy Y. Calne in May 1968.

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