... of caries removal in daily practice may be summarized as follows: The maintenance of contaminated dentin beneath restorations is inevitable and it is not associated with treatment failure neither in terms of lesion progression nor pulp vitality or restoration survival. The amount of carious dentin...

... a higher risk of failure when a liner or base from glass-ionomer cement was present. However, in a separate analysis excluding two large practice-based studies, this effect was no longer observed, indicating that this finding could be related to operator factors [ 23 ]. Differences in the lining material...

... of Paediatrics and Child Health. Withholding or withdrawing life sustaining treatment in children: a framework for practice. 2nd ed. London: RCPCH; 2004. 5. Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Critical care decisions in fetal and neonatal medicine: ethical issues. 2007. Available from: www.nuffieldbioethice.org...

... digestion and absorption [ 3 ]. Providing amino acids (AA) and energy immediately after birth with parenteral nutrition (PN) is nowadays a standard practice and a rather safe therapy if handled by an experienced team. Bridging PN is considered an integral part of the care of the smallest preterm infants...

... strategies early to mitigate detrimental intestinal host responses to preterm delivery and abrupt cessation of enteral substrates [ 11 ]. The recommendation to provide an early and safe enteral stimulus to the premature intestine is now widely used in clinical practice and is often accomplished through...

... schools in the United States, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) established the Nutrition Academic Award (NAA) Program [ 6 ]. The NAA program awarded grants to 21 U.S. medical schools and osteopathic medical schools to improve teaching of nutrition principles and clinical practice skills...

..., and scalable, can be incorporated in clinical practice, thereby making nutrition counseling feasible with only incremental burden to physicians’ time and energy. These tactics include: (1) assessing body mass index at every visit, (2) adding obesity or overweight on the problem list, (3) assessing diet, (4...

... and community-based care; however, appropriate care can diminish costs and improve outcomes, thereby reducing hospitalizations. Several interventions such as discharge planning, in-home care, continuity of care, advanced access scheduling, self-management support interventions, specialized nursing practice...

... Abstract Currently accepted “best practice” for managing breastfeeding effectively (WHO/UNICEF) is largely based on a historical view of how babies remove milk from the breast, which had persisted for several centuries. The collective wisdom was verified by imaging studies in the 1950s...

... Abstract This chapter aims to discuss the way dental practitioners manage deep carious lesions (DCL) in routine practice and the barriers and incentives/facilitators to changes in accepted practice. In concert with the philosophy of minimal intervention dentistry, the concept of quaternary...

... of lesions are mandatory to apply in daily clinical practice to avoid unnecessary restorative and antimicrobial treatments. Introduction With increasing age, gingiva recedes gradually and root surfaces become exposed to the oral environment in most individuals. Loss of attachment is associated...

... Abstract Two critical questions one must answer as one applies the results of a clinical trial to clinical practice are: (1) Regardless of whether the trial result is likely to be replicated or reproduced in a second large-scale trial, are the results likely to be reproduced in one's practice...

... violates the recommendation to use the full set of indicators for meaningful interpretation. Indeed, what matters for child nutrition and health is the quality of all CF practices over time, but multivariate analysis models using cross-sectional data only analyze one practice at a time at one specific...