How to use this website
How to use this website
This page explains how the Antibiotic Prophylaxis Against Infective Endocarditis implementation advice is presented in this website. See below for advice on how to use the website and tips on how to get the best from it.
Home page:
- Executive summary provides an overview of the key points of the implementation advice, with links to the relevant sub-sections.
- Implementation advice provides links to the Executive Summary plus eight sub-sections:
- Introduction; Overview of other guidelines; Shared decision-making; Patients at risk of infective endocarditis; Prevention of infective endocarditis; Advice for dental teams; Advice for cardiology and cardiac surgery teams; Prescribing advice
- About this advice includes information about:
- guidance development
- methodology
- endorsers of the implementation advice
- Supporting tools includes a range of resources to support users of the implementation advice, including a Management flowchart, Patient discussion aid and information for patients.
Navigation and Search:
- The top menu provides easy access to Implementation advice, About this advice, Supporting tools, Search.
- Use the left-hand menus to delve more deeply into the implementation advice or to go back a level.
- Use the Search function to find specific information of interest. Page titles that match your search term are listed first in the search results. If your search term is not in a page title, it is likely to be in the first few pages listed.
- On any page, click Home to return to the Home page.
- Use the Navigation page to access links to all pages on the Antibiotic Prophylaxis website
Page features:
- Recommendations are clearly presented in boxes with a green border:
Recommendations are presented in this format.
- Drop-down titles give access to more in-depth information:
More in-depth information is included here.
- Bulleted clinical practice advice points are presented in shaded boxes:
Clinical practice advice points are presented in this format.