Clinical Guidelines

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has announced an update to its clinical practice guideline for the management and treatment of ACL injuries, according to a press release.

Overtreatment of adults with low risk differentiated thyroid cancer is more common using the 2015 Dutch Thyroid Cancer guideline compared with the American Thyroid Association’s guideline, according to study findings.

The CDC’s updated COVID-19 guidelines relax previous strategies and no longer require unvaccinated individuals to quarantine after an exposure.

Implementation of universal chronic kidney disease care programs in Taiwan significantly lowered long-term trends in the incidence of maintenance dialysis.

SAN DIEGO — Gastroenterology societies should refrain from incorporating race and ethnicity into clinical guidelines as doing so may exacerbate health inequities, according to research presented at Digestive Disease Week 2022.

Following guideline updates for the treatment of opioid use disorder, pregnant women increasingly used buprenorphine compared with nonpregnant women.

SAN DIEGO — In this video exclusive, Jonathan D. Leffert, MD, talks with Bart L. Clarke, MD, about hypoparathyroid and hyperparathyroid guidelines expected to published as two documents in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research later this year.

NAPLES, Florida — In this Healio video, Maria T. Abreu, MD, professor of medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, shares highlights from her presentation on IBD guidelines at the 2022 ACG/FGS Annual Spring Symposium.

SAN DIEGO — In this video exclusive, Jonathan D. Leffert, MD, talks with Kenneth Cusi, MD, FACP, FACE, about the new American Association of Clinical Endocrinology nonalcoholic fatty liver disease guideline tailored for endocrinologists.

ASCO, in collaboration with the Society for Neuro-Oncology and American Society for Radiation Oncology, has issued a guideline that emphasizes the significance of local therapies for patients with symptomatic brain metastases.