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Guidelines Galore: Check Out These Evidence-Based Protocols

Published on Wed Sep 24, 2003 Print Friendly and PDF PDF

Nursing facilities looking to implement best practices have a number of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines from which to choose. The American Medical Directors Association has published the following Clinical Practice Guidelines specifically for use in long-term care settings (www.amda.com/info/cpg/):
 
 

  •  Altered Mental States (1998)
     
  •  Altered Nutritional Status (2001)
     
  •  Chronic Pain Management in the    Long Term Care Setting (1999)
     
  •  Dehydration and Fluid     Maintenance (2001)
     
  •  Dementia (1998)
     
  •  Depression (1996)
     
  •  Pharmacotherapy Companion to    Depression (1998)
     
  •  Diabetes (2002)
     
  •  Falls and Fall Risk (1998)
     
  •  Heart Failure (Revised 2002)
     
  •  Guideline Implementation (1998)
     
  •  Osteoporosis (1998)
     
  •  Parkinson's Disease (2002)
     
  •  Pressure Ulcers (1996)
     
  •  Pressure Ulcer Therapy     Companion (1999)
     
  •  Urinary Incontinence (1996)

     The following guidelines can be downloaded or printed from the National Guideline Clearinghouse Web site at     www.guideline.gov:
     
  •  Practice guideline for evaluation of fever and infection in long-term care facilities. Infectious Diseases Society of America - Medical Specialty Society.  (Sept. 2000)
     
  •  Prevention and control of influenza. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Federal Government Agency [U.S.].  1984 Apr. (revised April 2003)
     
  •  Guidelines for the prevention of falls in people over 65. Barts and the London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry - Academic Institution. (2000)
     
  •  Treatment of pressure ulcers. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - Federal Government Agency [U.S.].  1994 (reviewed 2000)
     
  •  Pressure ulcers in adults: prediction and prevention. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - Federal Government Agency [U.S.].  1992. (reviewed 2000)
     
  •  Wheelchair biking for the treatment of depression. University of Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center, Research Dissemination Core - Academic Institution. (Feb. 2003)
     
  •  Family bereavement support before and after the death of a nursing home resident. University of Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center, Research Dissemination Core - Academic Institution. (October 2002)
     
  •  Management of patients with stroke. Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network - National Government Agency. (revised November 2002)
     
  •  The management of persistent pain in older persons. American Geriatrics Society - Medical Specialty Society. (revised June 2002)
     
  •  Prevention of pressure ulcers. University of Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center, Research Dissemination Core - Academic Institution. (revised May 2002) 

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