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EDITORIAL
Guidelines
The NICE head injury guidelines
University of Manchester, Hope Hospital, Salford M6 8HD, UK
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr D W Yates;
david.w.yates@man.ac.uk
The need for guidelines for head injury
Keywords: NICE; head injury; guidelines
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Emergency physicians are already surrounded by guidelines. Surely, you might ask, we don’t need more on head injury to add to those of the US Brain Trauma Foundation, the European Brain Injury Consortium, the SIGN guidelines from Scotland, and recent recommendations from UK neurosurgeons, radiologists, paediatricians, and anaesthetists? Well, yes, I think we do. The guidelines to be published by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence in Spring 2003 will break new ground in a number of ways that will be of particular interest to our specialty.1
The development of the guidelines follows the pattern of best evidence synthesis, resolution of uncertainty by expert consensus, and consultation with a wide spectrum of professional and stakeholder groups that has been used so effectively in the production of National Service Frameworks. The work has been carried out at the recently created National Collaborating Centre for Acute Care, part of NICE, which
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