Guidelines issued by the UK-based National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ), carried out a systematic review using different methodology and came to a different conclusion.

NICE review pointed out that short-acting Z-drugs were inappropriately compared in clinical trials with long-acting benzodiazepines.

In many countries, including the UK, the majority view among endocrinologists is that the failure of treatment to provide any demonstrable, measurable benefits in terms of outcomes means treatment is not recommended for all adults with severe GHD, and national guidelines in the UK as set out by NICE suggest three criteria which all need to be met for treatment to be indicated:

Manual control is not available in Noctis IV, but is planned for Noctis V. The stardrifter itself has a hull made out of quartz, which can be made opaque by polarizing it, or left to be transparent ( or rendered entirely invisible if NICE is being used ).

" NICE objected that the statement was quoted out of context and was therefore misleading.

In practice this exercise is not done, but an assumed shadow price has been used by NICE for many years in its assessments to determine which treatments the NHS should and should not fund.

A conservative shadow minister once criticized NICE for spending more on communications than assessments.

In the United Kingdom, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) recommends CBT in the treatment plans for a number of mental health difficulties, including posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive – compulsive disorder ( OCD ), bulimia nervosa, and clinical depression.

NICE said that CBT would become the mainstay of treatment for non-severe depression, with medication used only in cases where CBT had failed.

Due to a lack of data, The NICE Guidelines for the Treatment and Management of Adult Depression ( 2009 ) issued no updated treatment recommendation for the use of maintenance or relapse prevention ECT.

The NICE 2003 guidelines state that doctors should be particularly cautious when considering ECT treatment for women who are pregnant and for older or younger people, because they may be at higher risk of complications with ECT.

The chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ), told The Guardian newspaper that " it is neither true, nor is it anything you could extrapolate from anything we've ever recommended " that Kennedy would be denied treatment by the NHS.

Because of the weakness of the evidence and the potential for serious side effects from some drug therapies, the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) 2009 clinical guideline for the treatment and management of BPD recommends: " Drug treatment should not be used specifically for borderline personality disorder or for the individual symptoms or behaviour associated with the disorder " but " drug treatment may be considered in the overall treatment of comorbid conditions ," and suggests " review of the treatment of people with borderline personality disorder who do not have a diagnosed comorbid mental or physical illness and who are currently being prescribed drugs, with the aim of reducing and stopping unnecessary drug treatment.

Currently, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) of England ’ s National Health Service ( NHS ) uses cost-effectiveness studies to determine if new treatments or therapies provide better value relative to the treatment that is currently in use.

NICE utililises the quality-adjusted life year ( QALY ) to measure the health benefits delivered by a given treatment regime.

The House of Commons Health Select Committee, in its report on NICE, stated in 2008 that " the (...) cost-per-QALY it uses to decide whether a treatment is cost-effective is of serious concern.

Where NICE has approved a treatment, the NHS must fund it.

For example the NHS usually pays for several rounds of treatment for fertility problems but because NICE has not assessed them some PCTs may cap the number of rounds and the patient may then have to pay privately if he or she wished to continue with fertility treatments beyond the capped level.

Some of the more controversial NICE decisions have concerned donepezil, galantamine, rivastigmine ( review ) and memantine for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and bevacizumab, sorafenib, sunitinib and temsirolimus for renal cell carcinoma.

All these are drugs with a high cost per treatment and NICE has either rejected or restricted their use in the NHS on the grounds that they are not cost-effective.

In January 2012, Tasigna was approved by NICE for addition to the United Kingdom health service's formulary as a first-line treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia ; Sprycel had been under consideration for this indication as well, but was rejected by NICE for formulary inclusion.

In the UK, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) has made recommendations for the treatment of elevated cholesterol levels, published in 2008.

NICE stated that long-term use of benzodiazepines for panic disorder with or without agoraphobia is an unlicensed indication, does not have long-term efficacy, and is, therefore, not recommended by clinical guidelines.

According to National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ), benzodiazepines can be used in the immediate management of GAD, if necessary.

The only medications NICE recommends for the longer term management of GAD are antidepressants.

The UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) guidelines recommend ECT for patients with severe depression, catatonia, or prolonged or severe mania.

The 2003 NICE ECT guidelines do not recommend ECT for schizophrenia, and this has been supported by meta-analytic evidence showing no or little benefit versus placebo, or in combination with antipsychotic drugs, including Clozapine.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ), UK released updated diabetes recommendations on the 30th May 2008, which recommend that self-monitoring of plasma glucose levels for people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes must be integrated into a structured self-management education process.

Opponents of the current reform care proposals fear that U. S. comparative effective research ( a plan introduced in the stimulus bill ) will be used to curtail spending and ration treatments, which is one function of NICE, arguing that rationing by market pricing rather by government is the best way for care to be rationed.

Even the NICE criteria for public funding of medical treatments were never set by politicians.

In the UK, the NICE guidelines define infertility as failure to conceive after regular unprotected sexual intercourse for 2 years in the absence of known reproductive pathology.

The UK government organization NICE recently revised its recommendation favoring atypicals, to advise that the choice should be an individual one based on the particular profiles of the individual drug and on the patient's preferences.

Based on this, NICE recommended choosing the hypnotic based on cost and the patient's preference.

The National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) suggests patients taking only one type of AEDs at a time.

Now with the ability to grant a B. Ed., school leaders took it upon themselves to use the name North Idaho College of Education ( NICE ).

NICE is therefore applying the same market pricing principles to make the hard job of deciding between funding some treatments and not funding others on behalf of everyone in the insured pool.

Palin had alleged that America will create rationing " death panels " to decide whether old people could live or die, again widely taken to be a reference to NICE.

Functionally the planning division carries out four activities: long-range state planning, current state planning, local planning assistance ; ;

With these gadgets -- impressive to the gullible because of their flashing light bulbs, ticks, and buzzes -- he then carries out a vicious medical con game, capitalizing on people's respect for the electrical and atomic wonders of our scientific age.

The program or server carries out an exhaustive search of a database of words, to produce a list containing every possible combination of words or phrases from the input word or phrase.

This hilt is the only treasure that Beowulf carries out of cavern, which he presents to Hroðgar upon his return to Heorot.

Joshua " carries out a systematic campaign against the civilians of Canaan — men, women and children — that amounts to genocide.

Saul loses the chance to establish his dynasty and even to continue to reign through two faults: he carries out a sacrifice in place of Samuel ( 1 Samuel 13: 8-14 ), and he fails to carry out genocide against the Amalekites as God has ordered ( 1 Samuel 15 ).

Despite questions of its source, the prayer carries out an important function in the narrative as a whole.

The execution process carries out the instructions in a computer program.

A central processing unit ( CPU ), also referred to as a central processor unit, is the hardware within a computer system which carries out the instructions of a computer program by performing the basic arithmetical, logical, and input / output operations of the system.

Charles explains the context for the music and carries out engaging interviews with guest musicians.

It rises from the stylobate without any base ; it is from four to six times as tall as its diameter ; it has twenty broad flutes ; the capital consists simply of a banded necking swelling out into a smooth echinus, which carries a flat square abacus ; the Doric entablature is also the heaviest, being about one-fourth the height column.

The younger Luthor slightly envies Clark's ' clean-cut ' and wholesome parents ( who disapprove of Clark's friendship with Luthor ), while Clark is impressed with Luthor's wealth while failing to understand some of the manipulations he carries out in his interactions with others.

This carries the multiplying new generations of V. cholerae bacteria out into the drinking water of the next host if proper sanitation measures are not in place.

While the institute is best known for its Millennium Prize Problems, it carries out a wide range of activities, including a postdoctoral program ( ten Clay Research Fellows are supported each year ) and an annual summer school, the proceedings of which are published jointly with the American Mathematical Society.

He still carries out the " letter of the law ", as deputy Sheriff, and wins over their respect.

* 1967 – At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human ( 53-year-old Louis Washkansky ).

Schulich School of Law also operates the Marine & Environmental Law Institute, which carries out research and conducts consultancy activities for governmental and non-governmental organizations.

Second, Kant argued that it was not the consequences of actions that make them right or wrong but the motives of the person who carries out the action.

Abraham Kuyper notes some " disagreeable aspects " to her character — that she should not have agreed to take Vashti's place, that she refrained from saving her nation until her own life was threatened, and that she carries out bloodthirsty vengeance.

The Hercules provides resupply missions through the use of air-drops and also carries out maritime patrol.

* 2005 – King Gyanendra of Nepal carries out a coup d ' état to capture the democracy, becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.

* 1935 – Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of RADAR in the United Kingdom.

* 1985 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.

Greenland has an armed coastguard that patrols the Greenlandic coast and carries out search and rescue operations.