Search results for "Guidelines"
AGA releases guidelines on managing gastric intestinal metaplasia found during routine endoscopy
The guidelines from the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) will aid clinicians' decision making for patients undergoing upper endoscopy in North America, the authors said.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2019/12/17/4.htm
17 Dec 2019
European guidelines for breast cancer screening differ from U.S. recommendations
The guidelines pertain to organized screening programs for women ages 40 to 75 years who are at average risk for breast cancer and address screening type and frequency, as well as follow-up of abnormal results.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2019/11/26/4.htm
26 Nov 2019
New guideline offers recommendations for older patients with diabetes or prediabetes
The Endocrine Society's new clinical practice guideline recommends lifestyle therapy, then metformin, then second-line drugs (but not sulfonylureas and glinides) or insulin for diabetes patients ages 65 years and older, among other advice.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2019/04/02/1.htm
2 Apr 2019
Joint guidelines on Lyme disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment open for comment
Among other recommendations, the draft guidelines favor oral antibiotic therapy with doxycycline, amoxicillin, cefuroxime axetil, or phenoxymethylpenicillin over other antimicrobials for treatment of Lyme disease.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2019/07/02/2.htm
2 Jul 2019
Prophylactic injectable monoclonal antibody reduced migraine days, industry trial finds
Compared with nonspecific oral drugs, patients treated with erenumab were six times more likely to achieve 50% or more reduction in monthly migraine days and were 11 times more likely to complete the treatment on the first attempt, authors reported.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2024/04/02/4.htm
2 Apr 2024
EHR alerts may help boost guideline-directed therapy for heart failure
An industry-funded cluster-randomized trial found that clinician alerts were associated with an over 40% increase in prescription of four recommended drug classes in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2022/04/12/1.htm
12 Apr 2022
ATS/IDSA release clinical practice guideline on diagnosing, treating CAP
The new American Thoracic Society (ATS) and Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) guideline updates the 2007 community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) guideline, and changes include a different perspective on macrolides.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2019/10/08/4.htm
8 Oct 2019
Updated hearing loss guideline clarifies timing of interventions, changes terminology
For sudden hearing loss, urgent evaluation and initiation of treatment are important, according to a guideline update from the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2019/08/13/4.htm
13 Aug 2019
U.S. statin use plateaued in 2013 to 2018
Most U.S. adults with the strongest guideline recommendations for primary prevention with statins are not receiving them, including those with diabetes, extremely high cholesterol levels, or 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease over 20%, a study found.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2023/12/05/1.htm
5 Dec 2023
ACP supports new facility guidelines on primary care and gynecology procedures
The guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the National Partnership for Women & Families aim to improve health care without putting burdens on patients or clinicians.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2019/02/05/4.htm
5 Feb 2019