Clinical Guidelines

BOSTON — In this video from the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings, Bob Nagy, vice-president of sales for AvoMD, discusses how its clinical decision support platform is making guidelines available at point-of-care.

BOSTON — In a review of the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes recommendations, a speaker discussed the Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative commentary on the updated guidelines here.

A reduction in paperwork burden and more flexibility regarding the personalization of diabetes self-management and education are among the changes in the 2022 National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support.

Like many of the services rapidly adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth seems certain to become a permanent part of the cancer treatment landscape.

Australian, American, Canadian and British panels that developed clinical practice recommendations most often consisted of white men and excluded historically underrepresented women, researchers reported in The Lancet.

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons released an update to the clinical practice guidelines for management of hip fractures in adults aged 55 years and older.

Fractional exhaled nitric oxide testing is beneficial and is recommended in addition to usual care in patients with asthma being considered for treatment, according to a new clinical practice guideline from the American Thoracic Society.

People with metastatic pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas should be closely monitored and undergo routine cross-sectional imaging while also being evaluated by a multidisciplinary team, according to a guideline published in Pancreas.

Indications for which cancer drugs receive accelerated approval often remain on drug labeling after confirmatory trials show no improvement in the primary efficacy endpoint, results of a retrospective, observational study showed.

Discrepancies between clinical practice guideline documents highlight the over-arching controversies in osteoporosis management, according to a presenter at the 2021 Congress of Clinical Rheumatology-West.