Clinical Guidelines

CenCal Health’s internal and external committees have accepted the following clinical guidelines from state and nationally recognized organizations that utilize best practices for high quality health care. Below are links to clinical guidelines for several disease states and screenings.

Asthma

NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma (EPR-3)

NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute: 2020 Focused Updates to the Asthma Management Guidelines

Behavioral Health Clinical Practice

https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/clinical-practice-guidelines

https://www.apa.org/practice/guidelines

https://www.socialworkers.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=YOg4qdefLBE%3d&portalid=0

https://www.casproviders.org/asd-guidelines

The ASAM Clinical Practice Guideline on Alcohol Withdrawal Journal of Addiction Medicine

The ASAM National Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder – 2020 Focused Update

CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain — United States, 2022 | MMWR

Consensus Statement -Appropriate Use of Drug Testing in Clinical Addiction Medicine

Clinical Guidance for Treating Pregnant and Parenting Women with Opioid Use Disorder and Their Infants

Opioid Use and Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy

HHS Guide for Clinicians on the Appropriate Dosage Reduction or Discontinuation of Long-Term Opioid Analgesics

Caring for Adult Patients with Suicide Risk: A Consensus Guide for Emergency Departments

Public Policy Statement on the Ethical Use of Drug Testing in the Practice of Addiction Medicine

The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Eating Disorders, Fourth Edition

Recommended Standard Care for People with Suicide Risk: Making Health Care Suicide Safe

Practice Parameter for the Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Reactive Attachment Disorder and Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder

Practice Parameter for the Assessment and Management of Youth Involved with the Child Welfare System

Clinical Management of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Huntington Disease: Expert-Based Consensus Guidelines on Agitation, Anxiety, Apathy, Psychosis and Sleep Disorders

Childhood Lead Screening and Treatment

Lead Screening Guidelines

Lead Poisoning Evaluation and Management

Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)

2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines | Circulation

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (2023 Report)

COVID-19

Clinical management of COVID-19: Living guideline, 13 January 2023 (who.int)

NIH Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Treatment Guidelines

Diabetes

Summary of Revisions: Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes- 2022 Diabetes

Hypertension

2017 Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults

ADA Diabetes and Hypertension Clinical Guidelines 2019

Immunizations

CDC 2023 Immunization Schedules

Overweight and Obesity: Adult

American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and American College of Endocrinology Comprehensive Clinical Practice Guidelines For Medical Care of Patients with Obesity – Endocrine Practice

AGA Clinical Practice Guidelines on Pharmacological Interventions for Adults with Obesity

Overweight and Obesity: Child and Adolescent

Comprehensive Care for Pediatric Obesity in Primary Care Setting, September 2017

AAP Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Obesity

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and CDC: Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines

Tobacco Cessation Guidelines (General population)

Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence 2008 Update

Tobacco Cessation Guidelines (Pregnant Women)

Tobacco and Nicotine Cessation During Pregnancy

Upper Respiratory Infection (URI): Adult and Pediatric

CMA Foundation AWARE Clinical Guidelines

English Viral Treatment Resources

Spanish Viral Treatment Resources

AAFP Antibiotic Use in Acute Upper Respiratory Tract Infections