The following new or revised clinical practice guidelines were recently posted on the Guidelines & Protocols Advisory Committee (GPAC) web site at www.BCGuidelines.ca [9]. Some of the guidelines are also available in PDA format at www.clinipearls.ca/BCGuidelines [10].
New guidelines
• Osteoarthritis in Peripheral Joints—Diagnosis and Treatment
• Infectious Diarrhea—Guideline for Ordering Stool Specimens Revised guidelines
• Acute Chest Pain—Evaluation and Triage
• Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)—Clinical Approach in Adults
• Ankle Injury—X-ray for Acute Injury of the Ankle or Mid-Foot
Coming in the spring and summer of 2009
• Stroke and TIA—Management and Prevention
• Febrile Seizures
• Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT)
• Anxiety and Depression in Children and Youth
• Palliative Care Approach to the Patient with Incurable Cancer
• Urinalysis and the Investigation of Urinary Tract Infections
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
• Dyspepsia With or Without H. pylori Infection
• Microscopic Hematuria
• Otitis Media—Acute Otitis Media (AOM) and Otitis Media with Effusion (OME)
CME hours are awarded to physicians for reviewing the guidelines; for details, see www.BCGuidelines.ca [9]. For those who received the guidelines on USB drives, they can be automatically updated online. See instructions on the above-mentioned web site. GPAC is a joint committee of the BC Medical Association and the Ministry of Health Services.
Links
[1] https://bcmj.org/cover/may-2009
[2] https://bcmj.org/node/3304
[3] https://bcmj.org/sites/default/files/BCMJ_51Vol4_puls_0.pdf
[4] https://bcmj.org/print/news/new-or-revised-clinical-practice-guidelines
[5] https://bcmj.org/printmail/news/new-or-revised-clinical-practice-guidelines
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[8] https://bcmj.org/javascript%3A%3B
[9] http://www.BCGuidelines.ca
[10] http://www.clinipearls.ca/BCGuidelines
[11] https://bcmj.org/modal_forms/nojs/webform/176
[12] https://bcmj.org/%3Finline%3Dtrue%23citationpop