Health Care Practice Recommendations

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Preventive Health

• Childhood Immunization Tool Kit
• Guide of Clinical Preventive Services

Clinical Practice Guidelines

• 1998: Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults. The Evidence Report. 
• 2009 Focused Update Incorporated Into the ACC/AHA 2005 Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Heart Failure in Adults
• 2011 ACCF/AHA Focused Update of the Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Unstable Angina/Non–ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (Updating the 2007 Guideline)
• ADD/ADHD Guidelines 
• AHA/ACCF Secondary Prevention and Risk Reduction Therapy for Patients With Coronary and Other Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease: 2011 Update
• AHA/ASA Guidelines for Prevention of Stroke in Patients with Ischemic Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack 
• Alcohol Abuse
• ANN Practice parameter:  Evidence-based Guidelines for Migraine Headache (an evidence-based review): Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the AAN
• APA Major Depression
• Asthma Guidelines
  • Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma (EPR-3)
  • Working Group Report on Managing Asthma During Pregnancy: Recommendations for Pharmacologic Treatment - Update 2004

• Bright Futures Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents -Third Edition (Contains: Periodicity Schedule – Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric Health Care)

• Cholesterol Guidelines

  • Implication of recent Clinical Trials for the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III Guideline

  • Third Report of the Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (ATP III Final Report)
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Guidelines
• Diagnosis and Treatment of Low Back Pain: A Joint Clinical Practice Guideline from the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society
• Panic Disorder
• Perinatal Guidelines
  • ICSI: Health Care Guideline: Routine Prenatal Care
  • ACOG: Guidelines for Perinatal Care, Sixth Edition
• Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee (JNC) on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure
• Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes – American Diabetes Association
• ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction