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Guidelines in Progress

The list below identifies guidelines that have not yet been posted to the NGC Web site because they are being processed. This list includes both new and updated guidelines that meet the NGC Inclusion Criteria and for which NGC has received the necessary copyright permissions. Guideline titles are listed alphabetically by guideline developer.

New reflects guidelines added to the NGC work queue within the last 2 weeks.

NGC currently contains 220 guidelines in progress.

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American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (1)
  • Practice parameter on gay, lesbian or bisexual sexual orientation, gender-nonconformity, and gender discordance in children and adolescents.
 
American Academy of Neurology (2)
  • Evidence-based guideline update: medical treatment of infantile spasms: report of the Guideline Development Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society.
  • Evidence-based guideline: pharmacologic treatment of chorea in Huntington disease. Report of the Guideline Development Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.
 
American Academy of Pediatrics (1)
  • Diagnosis and management of childhood obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
 
American Academy of Sleep Medicine (1)
  • The treatment of restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movement disorder in adults—an update for 2012: practice parameters with an evidence-based systematic review and meta-analyses.
 
American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (1)
  • American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists' guidelines for management of dyslipidemia and prevention of atherosclerosis.
 
American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine (2)
  • Consensus treatment recommendations for late-onset Pompe disease.
  • Evidence-based guideline: neuromuscular ultrasound for the diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome.
 
American Association of Neuroscience Nurses (1)
  • Nursing management of the patient with multiple sclerosis.
 
American College of Emergency Physicians (2)
  • Clinical policy: critical issues in the initial evaluation and management of patients presenting to the emergency department in early pregnancy.
  • Clinical policy: critical issues in the prescribing of opioids for adult patients in the emergency department.
 
American College of Gastroenterology (3)
  • Guidelines for prevention of NSAID-related ulcer complications.
  • Management of patients with ulcer bleeding.
  • Ulcerative colitis practice guidelines in adults: American College of Gastroenterology, Practice Parameters Committee.
 
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1)
  • Osteoporosis.
 
American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (2)
  • New Elbow disorders.
  • Low back disorders.
 
American College of Radiology (44)
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® acute (nonlocalized) abdominal pain and fever or suspected abdominal abscess.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® acute pyelonephritis.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® ataxia.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® blunt abdominal trauma.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® breast cancer screening.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® chronic chest pain — low to intermediate probability of coronary artery disease.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® chronic dyspnea — suspected pulmonary origin.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® claudication — suspected vascular etiology.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® cranial neuropathy.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® definitive therapy for early stage cervical cancer.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® focal neurologic deficit.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® head trauma.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® headache — child.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® imaging of mesenteric ischemia.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® incidentally discovered adrenal mass.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® jaundice.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® limping child — ages 0-5 years.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® metastatic bone disease.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® neck mass/adenopathy.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® neuroendocrine imaging.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® nonsurgical treatment for non-small-cell lung cancer: poor performance status or palliative intent.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® orbits, vision and visual loss.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® ovarian cancer screening.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® plexopathy.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® postmastectomy radiotherapy.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® pulsatile abdominal mass, suspected abdominal aortic aneurysm.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® radiation therapy for small-cell lung cancer.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® radiographically detected solitary pulmonary nodule.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® radiologic management of benign and malignant biliary obstruction.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® radiologic management of gastric varices.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® radiologic management of iliac artery occlusive disease.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® radiologic management of uterine leiomyomas.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® recurrent symptoms following lower extremity angioplasty.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® renovascular hypertension.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® resectable rectal cancer.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® sinonasal disease.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® sinusitis — child.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® staging and follow-up of ovarian cancer.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® staging of testicular malignancy.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® sudden onset of cold, painful leg.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® suspected osteomyelitis of the foot in patients with diabetes mellitus.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® suspected physical abuse — child.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® suspected spine trauma.
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® urinary tract infection — child.
 
American Geriatrics Society (2)
  • AGS/BGS clinical practice guideline: prevention of falls in older persons.
  • American Geriatrics Society updated Beers Criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults.
 
American Heart Association (2)
  • Neurodevelopmental outcomes in children with congenital heart disease: evaluation and management. A scientific statement from the American Heart Association.
  • Nonnutritive sweeteners: current use and health perspectives. A scientific statement from the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association.
 
American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (9)
  • Management of ingested foreign bodies and food impactions.
  • Role of EUS for the evaluation of mediastinal adenopathy.
  • The role of endoscopy in enteral feeding.
  • The role of endoscopy in gastroduodenal obstruction and gastroparesis.
  • The role of endoscopy in patients with anorectal disorders.
  • The role of endoscopy in the management of obscure GI bleeding.
  • The role of endoscopy in the management of patients with diarrhea.
  • The role of endoscopy in the management of patients with known and suspected colonic obstruction and pseudo-obstruction.
  • The role of endoscopy in the management of patients with peptic ulcer disease.
 
American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (2)
  • Practice parameters for anal squamous neoplasms.
  • Practice parameters for the management of colon cancer.
 
American Society of Echocardiography (1)
  • Guidelines for performing ultrasound guided vascular cannulation: recommendations of the American Society of Echocardiography and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists.
 
American Society of Hematology (1)
  • The American Society of Hematology 2011 evidence-based practice guideline for immune thrombocytopenia.
 
American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (1)
  • American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) guidelines for responsible opioid prescribing in chronic non-cancer pain: part 2 - guidance.
 
American Thyroid Association (1)
  • American Thyroid Association statement on the essential elements of interdisciplinary communication of perioperative information for patients undergoing thyroid cancer surgery.
 
Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (1)
  • Recommended practices for sterilization.
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