Consumer guidelines for chronic disease management

Using scenarios in chronic disease management guidelines for primary care

The Prodigy system is a guideline-based decision-support system designed to assist general practitioners in England choose the appropriate therapeutic action for their patients. As part of the system, we developed a novel model for encoding clinical guidelines for managing patients with chronic diseases such as asthma and hypertension. The model structures a guideline as a set of choices to be ...

Guidelines for the management of chronic kidney disease.

Managed Care Guidelines For Management of Chronic Kidney Disease

Practice Guidelines for Chronic Pain Management

P RACTICE Guidelines are systematically developed recommendations that assist the practitioner and patient in making decisions about health care. These recommendations may be adopted, modified, or rejected according to clinical needs and constraints and are not intended to replace local institutional policies. In addition, Practice Guidelines developed by the American Society of Anesthesiologis...

Updated guidelines for managing chronic kidney disease.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is the most costly disease covered by Medicare, and two common causes of CKD, diabetes and hypertension, are increasing worldwide. More than 60% of Americans will develop CKD in their lifetimes. This article reviews updated guidelines for managing CKD in primary care.