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Guideline Index

The Guideline Index is a complete list of summaries published on the NGC Web site. The list is organized alphabetically by guideline developer.

NGC currently contains 2327 individual guideline summaries.

A B C D E F G H I J K M N O P Q R S T U V W All

Academy for Chiropractic Education (1)

Manual medicine guidelines for musculoskeletal injuries.

Academy of Ambulatory Foot and Ankle Surgery (7)

Hallux abductovalgus.

Hallux limitus and hallux rigidus.

Hammertoe syndrome.

Heel spur syndrome.

Ingrown toenails.

Intermetatarsal neuroma.

Metatarsalgia/intractable plantar keratosis/Tailor's bunion.

Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (16)

Breastfeeding promotion in the prenatal setting.

Breastfeeding the hypotonic infant.

Engorgement.

Guideline on co-sleeping and breastfeeding.

Guidelines for breastfeeding and the drug-dependent woman.

Guidelines for breastfeeding infants with cleft lip, cleft palate, or cleft lip and palate.

Guidelines for hospital discharge of the breastfeeding term newborn and mother: "Going home protocol".

Guidelines for management of jaundice in the breastfeeding infant equal to or greater than 35 weeks' gestation.

Hospital guidelines for the use of supplementary feedings in the healthy term breastfed neonate, revised 2009.

Human milk storage information for home use for full-term infants.

Mastitis.

Model breastfeeding policy.

Non-pharmacologic management of procedure-related pain in the breastfeeding infant.

Peripartum breastfeeding management for the healthy mother and infant at term.

Use of antidepressants in nursing mothers.

Use of galactogogues in initiating or augmenting the rate of maternal milk secretion.

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (13)

ADA heart failure evidence-based nutrition practice guideline.

Celiac disease (CD). Evidence-based nutrition practice guideline.

Chronic kidney disease evidence-based nutrition practice guideline.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) evidence-based nutrition practice guideline.

Diabetes type 1 and 2 evidence-based nutrition practice guideline for adults.

Disorders of lipid metabolism. Evidence-based nutrition practice guideline.

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Evidence-based nutrition practice guideline.

HIV/AIDS evidence-based nutrition practice guideline.

Hypertension evidence-based nutrition practice guideline.

Oncology evidence-based nutrition practice guideline.

Pediatric weight management evidence-based nutrition practice guideline.

Spinal cord injury (SCI). Evidence-based nutrition practice guideline.

Unintended weight loss in older adults (UWL) evidence-based nutrition practice guideline.

Advanced Research Techniques in the Health Services (1)

Clinical practice guideline for the management of rheumatoid arthritis in Spain.

Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma Workshop Group (ARIA) (1)

Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) 2010 revision.

Alzheimer's Association (2)

Dementia care practice recommendations for assisted living residences and nursing homes: phase 3 end-of-life care.

Guideline for Alzheimer's disease management.

American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (5)

Allergen immunotherapy: a practice parameter second update.

Allergy diagnostic testing: an updated practice parameter. Part 1.

Allergy diagnostic testing: an updated practice parameter. Part 2.

Consultation and referral guidelines citing the evidence: how the allergist-immunologist can help.

The diagnosis and management of rhinitis. An updated practice parameter.

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (8)

Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with anxiety disorders.

Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with bipolar disorder.

Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with oppositional defiant disorder.

Practice parameter for the assessment of the family.

Practice parameter for the psychiatric assessment and management of physically ill children and adolescents.

Practice parameter on child and adolescent mental health care in community systems of care.

Practice parameters for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with depressive disorders.

American Academy of Dermatology (6)

Guidelines of care for acne vulgaris management.

Guidelines of care for the management of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. Section 4: guidelines of care for the management and treatment of psoriasis with traditional systemic agents.

Guidelines of care for the management of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. Section 5: guidelines of care for the treatment of psoriasis with phototherapy and photochemotherapy.

Guidelines of care for the management of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis: section 1. overview of psoriasis and guidelines of care for the treatment of psoriasis with biologics.

Guidelines of care for the management of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis: section 2. psoriatic arthritis: overview and guidelines of care for treatment with an emphasis on the biologics.

Guidelines of care for the management of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis: Section 3. Guidelines of care for the management and treatment of psoriasis with topical therapies.

American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) (5)

AAFP guideline for the detection and management of post-myocardial infarction depression.

Current diagnosis of venous thromboembolism in primary care: a clinical practice guideline from the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Physicians.

Current pharmacologic treatment of dementia: a clinical practice guideline from the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Recommended immunization schedules for persons aged 0 through 18 years — United States, 2011.

Summary of recommendations for clinical preventive services.

American Academy of Neurology (50)

(1) Assessment: prevention of post-lumbar puncture headaches. Report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology. (2) Addendum to assessment: prevention of post-lumbar puncture headaches. Report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Anticoagulants and antiplatelet agents in acute ischemic stroke: report of the Joint Stroke Guideline Development Committee of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Stroke Association (a division of the American Heart Association).

Assessment: botulinum neurotoxin for the treatment of movement disorders (an evidence-based review). Report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Assessment: botulinum neurotoxin for the treatment of spasticity (an evidence-based review). Report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Assessment: botulinum neurotoxin in the treatment of autonomic disorders and pain (an evidence-based review). Report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Assessment: efficacy of transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation in the treatment of pain in neurologic disorders (an evidence-based review). Report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Assessment: symptomatic treatment for muscle cramps (an evidence-based review). Report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Assessment: the use of natalizumab (Tysabri) for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (an evidence-based review). Report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Assessment: transcranial Doppler ultrasonography: report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Assessment: use of epidural steroid injections to treat radicular lumbosacral pain. Report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Carotid endarterectomy — an evidence-based review. Report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Disease modifying therapies in multiple sclerosis: report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the MS Council for Clinical Practice Guidelines.

Evidence report: the efficacy and safety of mitoxantrone (Novantrone) in the treatment of multiple sclerosis. Report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Evidence report: the medical treatment of ocular myasthenia (an evidence-based review). Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Evidence-based guideline update: determining brain death in adults. Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Evidence-based guideline update: plasmapheresis in neurologic disorders. Report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Evidence-based guideline: the role of diffusion and perfusion MRI for the diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke. Report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Evidence-based guideline: treatment of painful diabetic neuropathy. Report of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine, and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

Neutralizing antibodies to interferon beta: assessment of their clinical and radiographic impact: an evidence report. Report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Practice advisory: the use of felbamate in the treatment of patients with intractable epilepsy. Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society.

Practice parameter update: evaluation and management of driving risk in dementia. Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Practice parameter update: management issues for women with epilepsy--focus on pregnancy (an evidence-based review): obstetrical complications and change in seizure frequency. Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee and Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and American Epilepsy Society.

Practice parameter update: management issues for women with epilepsy--focus on pregnancy (an evidence-based review): teratogenesis and perinatal outcomes. Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee and Therapeutics and Technology Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and American Epilepsy Society.

Practice parameter update: management issues for women with epilepsy-focus on pregnancy (an evidence-based review): vitamin K, folic acid, blood levels, and breastfeeding. Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee and Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and American Epilepsy Society.

Practice parameter update: the care of the patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: drug, nutritional, and respiratory therapies (an evidence-based review). Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Practice parameter update: the care of the patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: multidisciplinary care, symptom management, and cognitive/behavioral impairment (an evidence-based review). Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Practice parameter: anticonvulsant prophylaxis in patients with newly diagnosed brain tumors. Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Practice parameter: antiepileptic drug prophylaxis in severe traumatic brain injury: report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Practice parameter: assessing patients in a neurology practice for risk of falls (an evidence-based review). Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Practice parameter: corticosteroid treatment of Duchenne dystrophy: report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society.

Practice parameter: diagnostic assessment of the child with cerebral palsy: report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society.

Practice parameter: evaluating an apparent unprovoked first seizure in adults (an evidence-based review). Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society.

Practice parameter: evaluation of children and adolescents with recurrent headaches: report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society.

Practice parameter: evaluation of distal symmetric polyneuropathy: role of autonomic testing, nerve biopsy, and skin biopsy (an evidence-based review).

Practice parameter: evaluation of distal symmetric polyneuropathy: role of laboratory and genetic testing (an evidence-based review).

Practice parameter: evaluation of the child with microcephaly (an evidence-based review). Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society.

Practice parameter: immunotherapy for Guillain-Barre syndrome: report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Practice parameter: pharmacologic treatment of spasticity in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy (an evidence-based review). Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society.

Practice parameter: recurrent stroke with patent foramen ovale and atrial septal aneurysm: report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Practice parameter: screening and diagnosis of autism. Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the Child Neurology Society.

Practice parameter: the diagnostic evaluation and treatment of trigeminal neuralgia (an evidence-based review). Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the European Federation of Neurological Societies.

Practice parameter: therapies for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (an evidence-based review). Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Practice parameter: thymectomy for autoimmune myasthenia gravis (an evidence-based review). Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Practice parameter: treatment of nervous system Lyme disease (an evidence-based review). Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Practice parameter: treatment of nonmotor symptoms of Parkinson disease. Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Practice parameter: treatment of postherpetic neuralgia. An evidence-based report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Quantitative sensory testing: report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Reassessment: neuroimaging in the emergency patient presenting with seizure (an evidence-based review). Report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

The utility of MRI in suspected MS: report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society.

Use of serum prolactin in diagnosing epileptic seizures. Report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

American Academy of Ophthalmology (18)

Age-related macular degeneration.

Amblyopia.

Bacterial keratitis.

Blepharitis.

Cataract in the adult eye.

Comprehensive adult medical eye evaluation.

Conjunctivitis.

Diabetic retinopathy.

Dry eye syndrome.

Esotropia and exotropia.

Idiopathic macular hole.

Pediatric eye evaluations: I. Screening. II. Comprehensive ophthalmic evaluation.

Posterior vitreous detachment, retinal breaks, and lattice degeneration.

Primary angle closure.

Primary open-angle glaucoma suspect.

Primary open-angle glaucoma.

Refractive errors and refractive surgery.

Vision rehabilitation for adults.

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) (12)

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons clinical guideline on diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome.

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons clinical guideline on prevention of symptomatic pulmonary embolism in patients undergoing total hip or knee arthroplasty. [NGC Update Pending]

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons clinical practice guideline on the treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome.

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee (non-arthroplasty).

Optimizing the management of rotator cuff problems.

The diagnosis and treatment of acute Achilles tendon rupture.

The diagnosis and treatment of osteochondritis dissecans.

The diagnosis of periprosthetic joint infections of the hip and knee.

The treatment of distal radius fractures.

The treatment of glenohumeral joint osteoarthritis.

The treatment of symptomatic osteoporotic spinal compression fractures.

Treatment of pediatric diaphyseal femur fractures.

American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (7)

Clinical practice guideline: acute otitis externa.

Clinical practice guideline: adult sinusitis.

Clinical practice guideline: benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.

Clinical practice guideline: cerumen impaction.

Clinical practice guideline: hoarseness (dysphonia).

Clinical practice guideline: polysomnography for sleep-disordered breathing prior to tonsillectomy in children.

Clinical practice guideline: tonsillectomy in children.

American Academy of Pain Medicine (1)

Clinical guidelines for the use of chronic opioid therapy in chronic noncancer pain.

American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (24)

Clinical guideline on the role of dental prophylaxis in pediatric dentistry.

Guideline on acquired temporomandibular disorders in infants, children, and adolescents.

Guideline on adolescent oral health care.

Guideline on antibiotic prophylaxis for dental patients at risk for infection. [NGC Update Pending]

Guideline on behavior guidance for the pediatric dental patient. [NGC Update Pending]

Guideline on caries-risk assessment and management for infants, children and adolescents.

Guideline on dental management of pediatric patients receiving chemotherapy, hematopoietic cell transplantation, and/or radiation.

Guideline on fluoride therapy.

Guideline on infant oral health care. [NGC Update Pending]

Guideline on informed consent.

Guideline on management of acute dental trauma.

Guideline on management of dental patients with special health care needs.

Guideline on management of the developing dentition and occlusion in pediatric dentistry.

Guideline on oral health care for the pregnant adolescent.

Guideline on oral health care/dental management of heritable dental developmental anomalies.

Guideline on pediatric oral surgery.

Guideline on pediatric restorative dentistry.

Guideline on perinatal oral health care. [NGC Update Pending]

Guideline on periodicity of examination, preventive dental services, anticipatory guidance/counseling, and oral treatment for infants, children, and adolescents.

Guideline on pulp therapy for primary and immature permanent teeth.

Guideline on use of anesthesia personnel in the administration of office-based deep sedation/general anesthesia to the pediatric dental patient.

Guideline on use of antibiotic therapy for pediatric dental patients.

Guideline on use of local anesthesia for pediatric dental