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Clinical Guidelines

• Clinical Guidelines - General
  • The Red Book
  • The World Health Organisation
• Clinical Guidelines - by category
  • Cancer
  • Breast cancer
  • Cardiovascular and Heart
  • Diabetes
  • Emergency medicine
  • CPR / resuscitation
  • Anaphylaxis
  • Gastrointestinal
  • Immunisation
  • Indigenous Health
  • Infectious disease
  • Lung / Respiratory / Asthma
  • Medication / Pharmaceutical
  • Multi-factorial Syndromes
  • Musculo-skeletal
  • Palliative Care
  • Psychiatry / Mental Health
  • Renal / Kidney

Clinical Guidelines - General

Bandolier

The Cochrane Library

Guidelines for preventative activities in General Practice (6th Edition) from the RACGP

Clinical Guidleines from the MJA

Clinical Evidence from the BMJ

The Merck Manual

NHMRC Guidelines

NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (UK)

Therapeutic Guidelines

World Health Organisation diseases, programmes and projects

Clinical Guidelines - by category

• Cancer

• Breast Cancer

  Best Practice guidelines from the National Breast Cancer Centre

• General
, The cancer Council Clinical Guidleines

Assessment and Management of Lung Cancer Evidence based guidelines for GPs from The Australian Lung Foundation and The Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing

Prostate Cancer

• Cardiovascular and Heart

  Guidelines for the prevention, detection and management of chronic heart failure 2006

Reducing risk in heart disease 2007

Hypertension / ISH WHO guidelines

Lipid management

Prevention of Heart Disease, an evidence based cinical aid from the MJA

PAH: Diagnosis by Exclusion PAH Diagnostic Investigational Chart

Stroke recovery. The National Stroke Foundation

• Diabetes

  Diabetes Management in General Practice

Gestational Diabetes

National Evidence Based Guidelines for Type 2 Diabetes

Type 2 Diabetes: Standard Care Pathway, a resource from General Practice Queensland supported by Queensland Health

• Emergency medicine

• CPR / resuscitation

Guidelines from The Australian Resuscitation Council

Anaphylaxis, diagnosis and management, from the MJA

Emergency management of anaphylaxis in the community, from Australian Prescriber

• Gastrointestinal

Guidelines from GESA, the Gastroenterological Society of Australia

• Immunisation

  The Australian Immunisation Handbook 9th edn. 2008

• Indigenous Health

  HealthInfoNet, part of Kurongkurl Katitjin, the School of Indigenous Australian Studies at Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Perth.

  
  

• Infectious disease

• STI / HIV Australasian Society for HIV Medicine

• Lung / Respiratory / Asthma

  Asthma Management Handbook 2006

Asthma vs COPD calculator (Adelaide University)

Asthma Action plans from NACA

COPD-X Checklist The Australian Lung Foundation

Assessment and Management of Lung Cancer Evidence based guidelines for GPs from The Australian Lung Foundation and The Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing

Respiratory Guidleines, from the MJA

Spirometer Users' and Buyers' Guide




• Medication / Pharmaceutical

  Australian Medicines Handbook

  National Prescribing Service

Guidelines and management strategies in the use of medication for many common illnesses

Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)

Therapeutic Guidelines

Warfarin: Consensus Guidelines for warfarin Therapy, MJA

• Multi-factorial Syndromes

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

• Musculo-skeletal

  Evidence Based Guidelines for Managment of acute mulsculo-skeletal pain

  Guidelines for GPs: back pain, chronic pain, migraine

Managing osteoarthritis, journal article form the MJA. Includes clinical pathways and consultation checklist.

• Palliative Care

  CareSearch palliative care knowledge network, free, quality, evidence-based information on palliative care with sections specifically designed for patients, carers, families and health professionals

  Clinical Practice Guidelines for communicating prognosis

  Suitability of palliative care drugs for administraion via subcutaneous syringe driver

• Psychiatry / Mental Health

Depression, Beyond Blue Guidelines from the MJA

Mental Health Guidleines from the NHMRC

• Renal / Kidney

Guidelines from CARI

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Very many thanks to Dr Ron Malpas, who supplied many of these links

Page last modified: 17 Nov 2008


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