Acc Aha Guideline Management in Hypertension

							                                                                                                    04/2008
UnitedHealthcare Clinical Guidelines

UnitedHealthcare has identified evidence-based clinical guidelines to guide our quality and health
management programs. The following chart lists the clinical guidelines and the Web sites where
the most current version of the guidelines can be found.

  Topic               Name of Guideline         Web Address

  Acute MI            ACC/AHA Guideline         American College of Cardiology/American Heart
                      for the Management of     Association
                      Patients with ST          http://www.acc.org/qualityandscience/clinical/guidel
                      Elevation Myocardial      ines/stemi/Guideline1/index.htm
                      Infarction

                      2007 Focused Update.      American College of Cardiology/American Heart
                                                Association:
                                                http://content.onlinejacc.org/cgi/content/full/j.ja
                                                cc.2007.10.001
                      ACC/AHA 2007              American College of Cardiology/American Heart
                      Guideline for the         Association
                      Management of             http://content.onlinejacc.org/cgi/content/full/50
                      Patients with Unstable    /7/e1
                      Angina and Non-ST
                      Elevation Myocardial
                      Infarction
  Asthma              National Asthma           National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
                      Education and             www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/asthma/index.htm
                      Prevention Program
                      Expert Panel Report 3
                      Guidelines for the
                      Diagnosis and
                      Management of
                      Asthma
  Cardiovascular      AHA/ACC Guidelines        American College of Cardiology/American Heart
  Disease             for Secondary             Association
                      Prevention for Patients   http://content.onlinejacc.org/cgi/content/full/47/10/2
                      With Coronary and         130
                      Other Atherosclerotic
                      Vascular Disease:
                      2006 Update

  Cholesterol         The Third Report of       National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
  Management          the Expert Panel on       http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/cholesterol/inde
                      Detection, Evaluation,    x.htm
                      and Treatment of High
                      Blood Cholesterol in      Note July 13, 2004 Update
                      Adults(Adult Treatment
                      Panel III)
  Chronic Heart       ACC/AHA 2005              American College of Cardiology
  Failure             GuidelineUpdate for       http://www.acc.org/qualityandscience/clinical/guidel
                      the Diagnosis and         ines/failure/update/index.pdf
                      Management of
                      Chronic Heart Failure
                      in the Adult
  Chronic Stable      2007 Chronic Angina       American College of Cardiology/American Heart
  Angina              Focused Update of the     Association
                      ACC/AHA 2002              http://content.onlinejacc.org/cgi/content/full/j.ja
                      Guidelines for the        cc.2007.08.002
                      Management of
                      Patients with Chronic
                      Stable Angina
  Diabetes            Standards of Medical      American Diabetes Association
                      Care for Patients with    http://www.diabetes.org/for-health-professionals-
                      Diabetes Mellitus 2007    and-scientists/cpr.jsp
                                                                                                    04/2008
  Topic                Name of Guideline         Web Address

  Hypertension         The Seventh Report        National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
                       on the Joint National     http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/hypertension/in
                       Committee on              dex.htm
                       Detection, Evaluation
                       and Treatment of High
                       Blood Pressure

  Hyperbili-           Management of             American Academy of Pediatrics
  rubinemia in the     Hyperbilirubinemia in     http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/pedi
  newborn              the Newborn Infant 35     atrics;114/1/297.pdf
                       or more weeks of
                       gestations                Information for families can be accessed at
                                                 http://www.aap.org/family/jaundicefaq.htm


  Major Depression     Practice guideline for    American Psychiatric Association
                       the Treatment of          http://www.psychiatryonline.com/pracGuide/pr
                       Patients with Major       acGuideTopic_7.aspx
                       Depressive Disorder
                       (Second Edition)          Note Guideline Watch (9/2005)
  Attention Deficit    Summary of the            American Academy of Child and Adolescent
  Hyperactivity        Practice Parameter for    Psychiatry
  Disorder(ADHD)       the Assessment and        http://www.aacap.org/galleries/PracticeParam
                       Treatment of Children,    eters/JAACAP_ADHD_2007.pdf
                       Adolescents and
                       adults with Attention
                       Deficit/Hyperactivity
                       Disorder

  Preventive           Guide to Clinical         Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Services             Preventive Services -     http://www.ahcpr.gov/clinic/uspstfix.htm
  Guidelines           US Preventive
                       Services Task Force
                       (USPSTF)
  Spinal Stenosis      Evidence-Based            North American Spine Society
                       Clinical Guidelines for   http://www.spine.org/Pages/PracticePolicy/Clinical
                       Multidisciplinary Spine   Care/ClinicalGuidlines/Default.aspx
                       Care
                                                 Note Download of Degenerative Lumbar Spine
                                                 Stenosis

If you do not have internet access and would like a copy of any of these guidelines, please call
Ellen Murphy-Blank, National Clinical Excellence Manager at (954) 447-8818.

This information is provided to you for general reference and is not intended to address every
aspect of a clinical situation that may exist now, or in the future. Physicians and health care
professionals must exercise clinical discretion in interpreting and applying this information to
individual patients. We hope you will consider this information and use it, when it is appropriate
for UnitedHealthcare’s members.
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