Future Guidelines
Guidelines for the following conditions are currently in process:
- Dementia: Treatment of Dementia *#
- Depression
- Erectile Dysfunction
- Palliative Care at the End of Life
- Periodic Health Evaluation *
- Peri-operative Cardiac Risk Assessment
- Screening for osteoporosis in Men
- Spirometry: In Diagnosis & Management of COPD
- Stable Ischemic Heart Disease
- Stroke: Primary Prevention of Stroke
- Treatment of Osteoporosis in Men and Women
* Guidelines based Evidence-based Practice Center reports
# Joint collaboration with American Academy of Family Physicians
+ Joint collaboration with the American Pain Society
Future Goals
- To improve the dissemination, implementation and evaluation of practice guidelines.
- To continue collaborating with other organizations on joint guidelines.
Suggest A Topic
Guidelines are tools for clinicians to use in order to improve their own medical practice, their patients' outcomes, and the health care system.
Clinical feedback is important for guidelines to work. We want to hear your comments, thoughts or suggestions.
E-mail us your suggestions or write to:
Amir Qaseem, MD, PhD, MHA
Department of Clinical Programs and Quality of Care
190 N. Independence Mall West
Philadelphia, PA 19106
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