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    NICE Key Therapeutic Topics – 2019 Update

    Posted on: 27th March 201910th September 2019

    NICE have updated and revised several Key Therapeutic Topic (KTT) documents and added two new topics to the KTT collection of evidence summaries to support medicines optimisation:

    KTT5 Asthma: medicines safety priorities UPDATE
    KTT6 Hypnotics UPDATE
    KTT7 Antipsychotics in people living with dementia UPDATE
    KTT9 Antimicrobial stewardship- prescribing antibiotics UPDATE
    KTT12 Type 2 diabetes mellitus: medicines optimisation priorities UPDATE
    KTT14 Wound care products UPDATE
    KTT17 Acute kidney injury (AKI): use of medicines in people with or at increased risk of AKI UPDATE
    KTT18 Multimorbidity and polypharmacy UPDATE
    KTT19 Psychotropic medicines in people with learning disabilities whose behaviour challenges UPDATE
    KTT20 Safer insulin prescribing UPDATE
    KTT21 Medicines optimisation in chronic pain UPDATE
    KTT22 Chemotherapy dose standardisation UPDATE
    KTT23 Shared decision making NEW
    KTT24 Suicide prevention: optimising medicines and reducing access to medicines as a means of suicide NEW

     

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