IGC GUIDELINES
CARDIOLOGY
Evidence-based cardiology guidelines offer a comprehensive framework for the prevention, diagnosis, and management of cardiovascular diseases. These guidelines integrate the latest clinical research and trials to recommend the most effective treatments and interventions for heart health.
Gastroenterology
Gastroenterology evidence-based guidelines provide a structured approach to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of digestive system disorders. They utilize current research and clinical data to guide healthcare professionals in delivering optimal gastrointestinal care.
Endocrinology
Endocrinology guidelines provide a critical overview of the management strategies for hormonal and metabolic disorders, grounded in the latest research and evidence-based clinical approaches.
Immunology
The guidelines in immunology are formulated based on rigorous scientific evidence, offering advanced strategies for the diagnosis and treatment of immune-mediated diseases, incorporating novel immunotherapeutic interventions.
Neurology
Neurology guidelines are developed through a systematic review of current evidence, providing a framework for the effective management of neurological disorders, emphasizing advancements in diagnostic and therapeutic modalities.
Nutrition
Nutritional guidelines are based on a comprehensive analysis of current research, offering evidence-based recommendations for dietary interventions in the prevention and management of diseases, underscoring the role of nutrition in health and disease.
Oncology
Oncology guidelines integrate the latest scientific evidence with clinical expertise to guide the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of cancer patients, highlighting personalized medicine and innovative therapeutic approaches.
Pulmonology
Pulmonology guidelines reflect the consolidation of scientific research and clinical practices for respiratory diseases, focusing on evidence-based strategies to enhance diagnosis, treatment, and patient management.
Rheumatology
Rheumatology guidelines are the culmination of extensive research and clinical data, offering evidence-based approaches for the management of rheumatic diseases, with an emphasis on novel therapeutic agents and patient-centered care.
Urology
Urology guidelines synthesize current scientific evidence and clinical expertise to provide recommendations for the management of urinary and reproductive system disorders, aiming to improve patient care and outcomes.
Otolaryngology
Otolaryngology guidelines are developed from a rigorous evaluation of scientific evidence, offering comprehensive strategies for the management of ear, nose, and throat conditions, incorporating advances in diagnostic and therapeutic techniques.
Cardiology
HEART RHYTHM SOCIETY
This guideline contains the protocol for healthcare professionals involved in the management and implantation of cardiac pacing devices, particularly focusing on advanced pacing strategies like His bundle pacing and left bundle branch pacing, as well as considerations for specific patient populations such as those with heart failure or congenital heart disease
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY/AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
The guideline provides Top 10 Take-Home Messages, includes Graphics, Assessment, Management/Treatment of Thoracic Aortic Disease, Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm – Acute Aortic Syndromes, Pregnancy in Patients With Aortopathy, Physical Activity and Quality of Life
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION/AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY
This guideline aims to provide healthcare professionals with a practical framework for the management of heart failure and related comorbidities, emphasizing the importance of early detection, multidisciplinary care, and personalized treatment strategies to optimize patient outcomes.
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY | AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CHEST PHYSICIANS | AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY | SOCIETY OF CARDIOVASCULAR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY
This guideline provides a comprehensive composition for the management of heart failure and related conditions, incorporating additional sections on the scope of the problem, defining chest pain, initial evaluation, and diagnostic testing to guide healthcare professionals in the assessment and treatment of patients with Heart Failure.
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY | AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | SOCIETY FOR CARDIOVASCULAR ANGIOGRAPHY AND INTERVENTIONS
This guideline provides a framework for the management of revascularization in coronary artery disease, covering key points, treatment strategies, procedural considerations, pharmacotherapy, outcomes, and practical tools such as figures, algorithms, and tables to guide clinical decision-making and optimize patient care.
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY/AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
This guideline aims to provide approach to manage congenital heart disease in adults, covering key points, background information, evaluation and management strategies, and algorithms, figures, and tables to guide clinical decision-making and optimize patient care.
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY/AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
This guideline provides healthcare professionals with approach to manage patients with bradycardia and cardiac conduction delay, covering key points, definitions, evaluation, treatment options, and practical tools to guide medical decision-making and optimize patient outcomes.
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY/AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
This comprehensive guideline aims to provide healthcare professionals with a structured approach to evaluate and manage syncope in patients, which is covering key points, initial evaluation, diagnosis, treatment options, patient disposition, and tables and algorithms which will help to guide the informed decisions for maximum patient outcomes.
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY/AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
This guideline provide information about evaluation and management of valvular heart disease and coronary artery disease, covering key points, team-based care, evaluation strategies, disease progression, diagnostic testing, specific disease states, and surgical considerations to optimize patient outcomes.
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION /AMERICAN STROKE ASSOCIATION
This comprehensive guideline aims to provide healthcare professionals with a structured approach to evaluate and manage syncope in patients, which is covering key points, initial evaluation, diagnosis, treatment options, patient disposition, and tables and algorithms which will help to guide the informed decisions for maximum patient outcomes.
Gastroenterology
AMERICAN GASTROENTEROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
This guideline aims to provide evidence-based recommendations and practical guidance for managing ulcerative colitis in patients with symptomatic remission and those with active disease. It covers key considerations such as treatment strategies, biomarker monitoring, and the impact of diagnostic test results on patient-important outcomes to optimize patient care and improve long-term outcomes.
AMERICAN GASTROENTEROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
This evidence based guidelines provide recommendations and practical guidance for the pharmacological management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome With Diarrhea, including key points and a summary table of FDA-approved drugs to educate the healthcare professionals to improve the patient care approach.
AMERICAN GASTROENTEROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
This guideline provides healthcare professionals with the evidence based recommendations and implications for management for Irritable Bowel Syndrome With Constipation. This include key points for treatments and also include the summary table of FDA-approved drugs for better understanding of available options.
AMERICAN GASTROENTEROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
This guideline aims to provide practical guidance for the diagnosis and treatment of portal vein thrombosis (PVT) and venous thromboembolism (VTE) in patients undergoing Cirrhosis. It covers key points, testing strategies, treatment options, and a summary table of procedure risk stratification to educate healthcare professionals for better decision making.
AMERICAN GASTROENTEROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
This comprehensive guideline aims to provide healthcare professionals with practical guidance for the management of iron deficiency anemia in gastrointestinal disorders. It covers key points, graded treatment recommendations, an algorithm for clinical decision-making, and a clinical decision support tool for the GI evaluation of iron deficiency anemia to guide clinical practices.
AMERICAN GASTROENTEROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
This comprehensive guideline aims to provide healthcare professionals with practical guidance for the management of iron deficiency anemia in gastrointestinal disorders. It covers key points, graded treatment recommendations, an algorithm for clinical decision-making, and a clinical decision support tool for the GI evaluation of iron deficiency anemia to guide clinical practices.
This guideline provide healthcare professionals with evidence-based recommendations and practical guidance for the usage of probiotics in the management of gastrointestinal disorders. It covers key points and treatment recommendations to optimize patient care.
AMERICAN GASTROENTEROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
This evidence-based guidelines provide recommendations and practical guidance for the pharmacological management of ulcerative colitis. It covers key points, graded treatment recommendations, disease severity scoring systems and specific guidance for managing patients settings to optimize patient care and outcomes.
Endocrinology
AMERICAN GASTROENTEROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
This guidelines serves as a valuable resource for making well-founded decisions on safe pharmacological interventions for obesity. It covers graded treatment recommendations, a tabular format summarizing anti-obesity medications, figures illustrating their mechanisms of action, and a clinical decision support tool to guide clinical practice and optimize patient care.
OBESITY MEDICINE ASSOCIATION
This guideline aims to provide healthcare professionals with detailed information on anti-obesity medications, the effects of concomitant medications on weight, and the role of supplements and functional foods in weight management. It covers efficacy, safety, and practical considerations to help healthcare professionals make informed decisions when prescribing or recommending treatments for obesity.
OBESITY MEDICINE ASSOCIATION
This evidence based guidelines aims to provide healthcare professionals with detailed information on obesity as a disease, the benefits of treating obesity, and practical guidance for its evaluation and management. It covers diagnosis methods, evaluation strategies, non-pharmacologic treatments, and considerations for managing eating disorders in patients with obesity to optimize patient care and outcomes.
ENDOCRINE SOCIETY
This guideline include detailed information on injectable insulin preparations, continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) implementation, and insulin therapy conversion protocols. It covers essential points, definitions of key terms, tables listing insulin preparations and CGM resources, and a methodology for converting insulin pump therapy to basal-bolus insulin therapy to optimize diabetes management in non-critical care hospital settings.
ENDOCRINE SOCIETY
This evidence based guideline provides recommendations for managing lipid and lipoprotein abnormalities in patients with endocrine disorders. It covers data on dyslipidemia prevalence, ASCVD risk, and impact of endocrine disease treatment on lipid profiles and cardiovascular outcomes, along with implications for clinical practice and future research directions.
Immunology
INTERNATIONAL CONSENSUS IN ALLERGY & RHINOLOGY / AMERICAN RHINOLOGIC SOCIETY / AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OTOLARYNGIC ALLERGY / INTERNATIONAL FORUM OF ALLERGY & RHINOLOGY
This guideline aims to provide practical guidance for the diagnosis and management of rhinosinusitis. It covers diagnostic algorithms, medical and surgical management options, anatomic considerations during sinus surgery, postoperative care protocols, and potential risks and complications associated with treatment modalities to optimize patient care and outcomes.
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF ALLERGY, ASTHMA, AND IMMUNOLOGY | AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ALLERGY, ASTHMA & IMMUNOLOGY
This guideline focuses on the treatment recommendations and practical guidance for the management of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps. It covers topical steroids available for treatment, conditions important for shared decision-making, and biologic agents, to help healthcare professionals increase patient outputs.
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ALLERGY ASTHMA & IMMUNOLOGY
This guideline aims to provide healthcare professionals with evidence-based recommendations and practical guidance for the management of rhinitis. It covers key points, classification, differential diagnosis, physical examination, management algorithms, pharmacologic therapy options, sample medication action plans, and detailed drug information to optimize patient care and outcomes.
Neurology
SOCIETY FOR VASCULAR SURGERY
The guideline focuses on best practice recommendation on various aspects of medical therapy and their risk modification factors. It also involves various aspects of the diseases which also include indications and other pharmacological aspects. It includes tables of revascularization techniques with high-risk, criteria and surgical risk for CEA based on the medicare national coverage decision. This will help the healthcare professionals in better decision making.
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY
The evidence based guideline aims to provide healthcare professionals with diagnostic and treatment recommendations and predictors of recurrent stroke or death in patients with symptomatic intracranial atherosclerotic arterial stenosis. It includes the table with the risk factor-control during follow-up modifiable and non modifiable risk factors at baseline.
Nutrition
AMERICAN LIMB PRESERVATION SOCIETY
The guideline aims to provide the disease overview along with its prevalence and challenges. It covers guidance for diabetes-related discussion, initial screening and assessment. Also focuses on dietary factors in wound healing and specific nutrients requirement along with nutritional interventions. This will help the healthcare professionals to enhance the patient care.
ACADEMY OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS
The evidence based guideline aims to provide the nutritional assessment, intervention, monitoring and evaluation of nutrients for the condition of chronic kidney disease. This covers the table containing the nutritional requirement as per the stages of the disease. This will help the healthcare professionals to enhance the patient safety and care.
ACADEMY OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS
The guidelines aims to provide the healthcare professionals with evidence based recommendations for the graded treatment, nutritional screening and referral, nutrition intervention and monitoring and evaluation. This will enable the healthcare professionals to make informed decisions.
ACADEMY OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS
The evidence based nutrition practice guideline for Very Low Birth Weight Preterm Infant provides the nutritional assessment for such condition. This covers the detail on the protein amount, type of fat, Human milk fortification, etc factors which will help the healthcare professionals to enhance the patient safety and care.
Oncology
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
This guideline provides comprehensive guidance on the management of metastatic or locally advanced breast cancer, including targeted therapy options, treatment algorithms, and considerations for specific breast cancer subtypes such as HR-positive and triple-negative breast cancer.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
This guideline provides valuable insights and recommendations for clinicians involved in the management of metastatic or locally advanced breast cancer, offering guidance on targeted therapies and tailored approaches for different molecular subtypes of the disease.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
By incorporating recommendations from multiple time points and providing an algorithm for treatment decision-making, this guideline aims to offer comprehensive guidance for healthcare providers involved in the management of metastatic breast cancer, particularly in the context of HR-positive, HER2-negative disease.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY/ AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CYTOPATHOLOGY/ COLLEGE OF AMERICANS PATHOLOGIST
This guidelines provide the comprehensive framework for diagnosis and assessment of ER status in invasive breast cancer. It aims to standardize reporting practices, improve diagnostic accuracy, and facilitate appropriate treatment decisions for patients with breast cancer.
Pulmonology
AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY | EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY SOCIETY
This comprehensive guideline aims to provide healthcare professionals with updated recommendations and practical guidance for the diagnosis and management of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and progressive pulmonary fibrosis (PPF). It covers introduction, diagnosis and treatment updates for IPF, diagnosis and treatment of PPF other than IPF, tables summarizing HRCT patterns and definitions of PPF, and detailed figures illustrating pulmonary fibrosis management pathways.
Rheumatology
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RHEUMATOLOGY
This evidence based guidelines aims to provide recommendations and practical guidance for healthcare providers involved in the care of patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases regarding vaccination practices. It focuses on the importance of vaccination in this population while addressing the unique considerations associated with immunosuppressive therapy.
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RHEUMATOLOGY/AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF HIP AND KNEE SURGEONS
This guidelines aims to provide the recommendations for the treatment approach for Rheumatic Disease. This covers tables indicating medications to continue through surgery, medications to withhold prior to surgery, populations included in the guideline and summary of recommendations, that help the healthcare professionals in making informed decisions.
GROUP FOR RESEARCH AND ASSESSMENT OF PSORIASIS AND PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS (GRAPPA)
This guideline provide the evidence based treatment recommendations for the management of Psoriatic Arthritis. This includes the key points, overarching principles, details of biosimilars, tapering/discontinuing therapy. This also includes the table containing the various treatment approach according to disease conditions.
AMERICAN COLLEGE RHEUMATOLOGY
This guideline provides comprehensive guidance for healthcare providers involved in the management of RA, covering various aspects of diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, and safety considerations. This focuses on covering different approaches for managing the different levels of disease.
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RHEUMATOLOGY/ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION
This guideline offers evidence-based recommendations for healthcare providers involved in the management of Osteoarthritis of the hand, knee, and hip. It provides guidance on a range of treatment modalities, including physical, psychosocial, and pharmacologic approaches, with the aim of improving patient outcomes and quality of life.
Urology
THE SOCIETY FOR POST-ACUTE AND LONG-TERM CARE MEDICINE
This evidence-based guideline aims to provide recommendations and practical tools for healthcare providers for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of UTIs in older adults. It focuses the importance of antibiotic stewardship and tailored approaches to UTI management in this vulnerable population.
Otolaryngology
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY HEAD AND NECK SURGERY FOUNDATION
This guideline provides comprehensive guidance for healthcare providers involved in the diagnosis and management of otitis media in pediatric patients. It emphasizes the importance of early detection, appropriate treatment, and ongoing monitoring to optimize outcomes and prevent complications.
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY HEAD AND NECK SURGERY FOUNDATION
This guideline aims to provide information and guidance for the diagnosis, treatment, and management of Ménière’s disease. It includes diagnostic criteria, treatment options, and educational resources for both healthcare providers and patients.
Other
SOCIETY FOR HEALTHCARE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF AMERICA
This guideline aims to provides comprehensive guidance for healthcare providers on the appropriate use of antibiotics during respiratory viral pandemics and epidemics. It emphasizes the importance of diagnostic testing to differentiate viral from bacterial infections and underscores the role of antibiotic stewardship in optimizing patient care and minimizing the development of antibiotic resistance
INFECTIOUS DISEASES SOCIETY OF AMERICA
This guideline aims to provide guidance in the management and control of influenza, particularly in the context of co-circulation with SARS-CoV-2. It includes recommendations for testing, treatment, prevention, and outbreak control, as well as information on influenza vaccines and decision-making algorithms.
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF ALLERGY, ASTHMA, AND IMMUNOLOGY | AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ALLERGY, ASTHMA & IMMUNOLOGY
This guideline provides comprehensive guidance for healthcare providers involved in the diagnosis and management of delayed hypersensitivity reactions to drugs. It includes information on diagnostic testing procedures, contraindications to drug challenges, HLA associations, and recommended approaches to drug administration in patients with suspected hypersensitivity reactions.