Patient Summaries
Patient summaries are available for many of ACP’s guidelines and guidance statements. The summaries are divided into those associated with current guidelines, and those associated with inactive guidelines.
Current
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Diagnosis and Management of Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary
Disease: A Clinical Practice Guideline Update from the American College
of Physicians, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic
Society, and European Respiratory Society
Full text
Colorectal Cancer Screening
Screening for Colorectal Cancer: A Guidance Statement From the American
College of Physicians
Full text
Dementia
Current Pharmacologic Treatment of Dementia: A Clinical Practice Guideline from the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Family Physicians
Full text
Depression
Use of Drugs to Treat Depression: Guidelines from the American College of Physicians
Full text
Diabetes
Oral Pharmacologic Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Clinical
Practice Guideline From the American College of Physicians
Full text
Erectile Dysfunction
Hormonal Testing and Pharmacologic Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction
Full text | Video News Release
Also available in Spanish:
Disfunción Eréctil
Pruebas Hormonales y Tratamiento Farmacológico de la Disfunción Eréctil
PDF
Upper Endoscopy for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
Upper Endoscopy for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: Best Practice Advice From the Clinical Guidelines Committee of the American College of Physicians
Full text
High-Value, Cost-Conscious Health Care
High-Value, Cost-Conscious Health Care: Concepts for Clinicians to
Evaluate the Benefits, Harms, and Costs of Medical Interventions
Full text
HIV Screening
Screening for HIV Infection in Health Care Settings: A Guidance Statement from the American College of Physicians and HIV Medicine Association
Full text | Video News Release
Also available in Spanish:
VIH
Detección de Infección por VIH en las Instituciones de Atención de Salud: Directrices del American College of Physicians y de la Asociación de Medicina VIH.
PDF
Low Back Pain
Diagnostic Imaging for Low Back Pain: Advice for High-Value Health Care
From the American College of Physicians
Full text
Diagnosis and Treatment of Low Back Pain: Recommendations from the American College of Physicians/American Pain Society
Full text | Video News Release
Screening for Osteoporosis in Men
Screening for Osteoporosis in Men: Recommendations from the American College of Physicians
Full text | Video News Release
Treatment of Osteoporosis
Drug Treatment for Low Bone Density or Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures: A Clinical Practice Guideline from the American College of Physicians
Full text
Palliative Care at the End of Life
Treatment of Seriously Ill Patients Who Are Near the End of Life: Recommendations from the American College of Physicians
Full text
Pulmonary Complication in Noncardiothoracic Surgery
Risk for and Reduction of Pulmonary Complications in Patients Undergoing Noncardiothoracic Surgery: An American College of Physicians Guideline
Full text
Screening Mammography
Screening Mammography in Women Age 40 to 49 Years
Full text
Stable Ischemic Heart Disease
Diagnosis of Patients With Stable Ischemic Heart Disease: Executive
Summary of a Clinical Practice Guideline for Primary Care From the
American College of Physicians/American College of Cardiology
Foundation/American Heart Association/American Association for Thoracic
Surgery/Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association/Society of Thoracic
Surgeons
Full text
Management of Patients With Stable Ischemic Heart Disease: Executive
Summary of a Clinical Practice Guideline From the American College of
Physicians/American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart
Association/American Association for Thoracic Surgery/Preventive
Cardiovascular Nurses Association/Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Full text
Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism
Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism: Recommendations from the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Family Physicians
Full text
Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis
Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in Hospitalized Patients: A Clinical
Practice Guideline From the American College of Physicians
Full text
Inactive
Atrial Fibrillation
Management of Newly Detected Atrial Fibrillation: Recommendations from the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Family Physicians
Full text
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Clinical Practice Guideline from the American College of Physicians
Full text | Video News Release
Chronic Stable Angina
Diagnosis and Evaluation of Patients with Chronic Stable Angina: Recommendations from the American College of Physicians
Full text
Diabetes Type 2 Blood Pressure
Blood Pressure Control in People with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Recommendations from the American College of Physicians
Full text
Diabetes Type 2 Blood Sugar
Control of Blood Sugar in Type 2 Diabetes: A Guidance Statement from the American College of Physicians
Full text
Diabetes Type 2 Lipids
Control of Lipids in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: Recommendations from the American College of Physicians
Full text
Hereditary Hemochromatosis
Screening for Hereditary Hemochromatosis: Recommendations from the American College of Physicians
Full text
Migraine Headaches
Guidelines for the Treatment and Prevention of Migraine Headaches
Full text
Obesity
Treating Obesity with Drugs and Surgery: A Clinical Practice Guideline from the American College of Physicians
Full text
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