Clinical Practice Guidelines

Antibiotic prescribing guidelines - SLH (2004)

Antibiotic prescribing guidelines - UPMC (2008)

Chicken pox - BIS (Draft 2007)

Chickenpox in pregnancy - RCOG (2007)

Chronic fatigue syndrome management - NICE (2007)

Encephalitis: Management of encephalitis - IDSA (2008)

Endocarditis: Diagnosis, antimicrobial therapy, and management of complications - AHA (2005)

Endocarditis: Diagnosis, prevention and treatment of infective endocarditis - ESC (2004)

Endocarditis: Guidelines for the antibiotic treatment of endocarditis in adults - BSAC (2004)

Endocarditis: Prevention of Infective Endocarditis - AHA (2007)

Endocarditis: Prophylaxis against infective endocarditis - NICE (2008)

Fungal infections: Guidelines for the use of antifungal agents in the treatment of invasive Candida and mould infections - ASID (July 2003)

Hepatitis B: Chronic hepatitis B - AASLD (2007)

Hepatitis B: Management of Hepatitis B (Adefovir/Peg-Interferon) - NICE (2006)

Hepatitis C: Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment of Hepatitis C - AASLD (Dec 2003)

Hepatitis C: Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment of Hepatitis C: an Update - AASLD (April 2009)

Hepatitis C: Management of hepatitis C - SIGN (2006)

HIV: Clinical management and treatment of HIV infected adults - EACS (December 2007)

HIV: Clinical management and treatment of chronic hepatitis B and C co-infection in HIV-infected adults - EACS (December 2007)

HIV: Co-infection with hepatitis B - BHIVA (October 2004)

HIV: Co-infection with hepatitis C - BHIVA (October 2004)

HIV: Co-infection with Tuberculosis - BHIVA (February 2005)

HIV: Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents - CDC/DHHS (April 2009)

HIV: Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-1-Infected Adults and Adolescents - DHHS (January 2008)

HIV: HIV, hepatitis B or hepatitis C infected Health Care Workers - New South Wales Health (2005)

HIV: HIV infected Health Care Workers: Guidance on management and patient notification - DOH UK (2005)

HIV: Immunisation of HIV-infected adults - BHIVA (April 2006)

HIV: Kidney transplantation in patients with HIV infection - BHIVA (2005)

HIV: Liver transplantation in patients with HIV infection - BHIVA (April 2005)

HIV: Management of HIV infection in pregnant women and the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV - BHIVA (March 2005)

HIV Post-exposure prophylaxis: Antiretroviral Postexposure Prophylaxis After Sexual, Injection-Drug Use, or Other Nonoccupational Exposure to HIV in the United States - USDHHS (2005)

HIV Post-exposure prophylaxis: UK Guideline for the use of post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV following sexual exposure - BASHH (2006)

HIV Post-exposure prophylaxis: Updated management of occupational exposure to HIV - USPHS (2005)

HIV, HBV, HCV Post-exposure prophylaxis: Management of occupational exposure to HBV, HCV and HIV - USPHS (2001)

HIV: Prevention and management of metabolic diseases in HIV - EACS (December 2007)

HIV: Treatment of HIV-infected adults with anti-retroviral therapy - BHIVA (2006)

Human bites: Guidelines on the mangament of human bite injuries - HPA (2007)

Immunisation against infectious disease (The Green Book) - DOH UK (2006)

Influenza - Pandemic Flu - BIS/BTS (2007)

Influenza: Preparations for pandemic influenza: Guidance for hospital medical specialties on management during a pandemic influenza outbreak - RCP (April 2009)

Malaria - BIS (Feb 2007)

Meningitis management algorithm - BIS (Feb 2003)

Meningitis: Management of Bacterial Meningitis - IDSA (Oct 2004)

Meningitis: Preventing secondary meningococcal disease in health care workers - HPA (2001)

Neutropenia: Guidelines for the use of antimicrobial agents in neutropenic patients with cancer - IDSA (2002)

MOTT: Mycobacteria Other Than Tuberculosis - BTS (1999)

MOTT: Diagnosis, treatment and prevention of nontuberculous mycobacterial diseases - ATS/IDSA (2007)

Pleural Infection - BTS (2003)

Pneumonia: Community Acquired Pneumonia: Management - BTS (2001)      Update (2004)

Pregnancy: Management of, and exposure to, rash illness in pregnancy (PHLS Joint Working Party of the Advisory Committees of Virology and Vaccines and Immunisation - March 2002)

Respiratory tract infections: antibiotic prescribing - NICE (2008)

Sepsis: International guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock - Surviving Sepsis Campaign - ISSCGC (2008)

Skin and Soft Tissue Infection Diagnosis and Management - IDSA (Oct 2005)

Syphilis: Serological diagnosis of syphilis - PHLS (2000)

Travel: CDC Health information for International Travel (The Yellow Book) - CDC (2008)

Travel Medicine - IDSA (Nov 2006)

Tuberculosis: Diagnosis, Management, Control - UK (RCP - 2006)           Quick summary

Tuberculosis: Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Mycobacterium TB in Health-Care Settings - CDC (2005)

Tuberculosis: Mantoux test - administration, reading and interpretation - NHS (UK)

Tuberculosis: Mantoux tuberculin skin test - CDC (US)

Tuberculosis: Treatment of tuberculosis - US (MMWR 2003)          Erratum pg 1203

UTI: Guideline on the managament of urinary and male genital tract infections - EAU (2008)

Vancomycin: Therapeutic monitoring of vancomycin in adult patients - ASHP/IDSA/SIDP (2009)

AASLD: American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (US)

AHA: American Heart Association (US)

ASHP: American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (US)

ATS: American Thoracic Society (US)

ASID: Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (Aus)

BASHH: British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (UK)

BIS: British Infection Society (UK)

BHIVA: British HIV Association (UK)

BSAC: British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (UK)

BTS: British Thoracic Society (UK)

CDC: Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (US)

DHHS: Department of Health and Human Services (US)

DOH: Department of Health (UK)

EACS: European AIDS Clinical Society (EU)

EAU: European Association of Urology (EU)

ESC: European Society of Cardiology (EU)

HPA: Health Protection Agency (UK)

IAS: International AIDS Society

IDSA: Infectious Disease Society of America (US)

ISSCGC: International Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines Committee

NCCPC: National Collaborating Centre for Primary Care (UK)

NICE: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (UK)

PHLS: Public Health Laboratory Services (UK) (currently known as HPA)

RCOG: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (UK)

RCP: Royal College of Physicians (UK)

RCP: Royal College of General Practitioners (UK)

SIDP: Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (US)

SIGN: Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network (UK)

SLH: St Luke's Hospital (Malta)

UPMC: University of Pensyllvania Medical Center (US)

USDHHS: United States Department of Health and Human Services (US)

USPHS: United States Public Health Service (US)

WHO: World Health Organisation

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