Disease Management Programs - Clinical Guidelines Reference Material

Asthma

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Expert Panel Report: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma-Update on Selected Topics 2002. Bethesda, MD: US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute; 2003. NIH publication 02-5074.

Available at: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/asthma/asthmafullrpt.pdf

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Expert Panel Report 2: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma. Bethesda, MD: US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute; 1997. NIH publication 97-4051.

Available at: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/asthma/asthgdln.pdf

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD). Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. 2006.

Available at: http://www.goldcopd.org

Coronary Artery Disease

Smith SC Jr, Allen J, Blair SN, et al. AHA/ACC guidelines for secondary prevention for patients with coronary and other atherosclerotic vascular disease: 2006 update: endorsed by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2006;47:2130-2139.

Available at: http://content.onlinejacc.org/cgi/reprint/47/10/2130

Gibbons RJ, Abrams J, Chatterjee K, et al. ACC/AHA 2002 Guideline Update for the Management of Patients with Chronic Stable Angina: a Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. 2002.

Available at: http://www.acc.org/qualityandscience/clinical/guidelines/stable/stable_clean.pdf

Furster V, Rydén LE, Cannom DS, et al. ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2006:48:e149 –246.

Available at: http://www.acc.org/qualityandscience/clinical/guidelines/atrial_fib/pdfs/AF_Full_Text.pdf

Diabetes

American Diabetes Association. Standards of medical care in diabetes-2007. Diabetes Care. 2007;30(Suppl 1):S4-S41.

Available at: http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/vol30/suppl_1/

Heart Failure

Hunt SA, Abraham WT, Chin MH, et al. ACC/AHA 2005 guideline update for the diagnosis and management of chronic heart failure in the adult: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2005;46:1-82.

Available at: http://content.onlinejacc.org/cgi/reprint/46/6/e1