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Clinical Practice Guidelines
Under Vermont Rule 10, Vermont’s Quality Assurance Standards and Consumer Protections for managed care plans, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont (BCBSVT) and its HMO subsidiary, The Vermont Health Plan (TVHP), are required to annually adopt new clinical practice guidelines as well as review clinical guidelines that were previously adopted by the Plan.
The Plan has recently reviewed and/or approved adoption of the following guidelines:
- Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care's 2004 Clinical Guidelines for Management of Diabetes (http://www.vpqhc.org/CurrentReports/Diabetes%202004.pdf)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma (http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/asthma/index.htm)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC7)
(http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/hypertension/index.htm)
- American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - ASGE Guideline Colorectal Cancer screening and surveillance
(http://www.asge.org/nspages/practice/patientcare/sop/lowerGI/2006_colorectal.pdf)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2006 Recommended Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule and Catch Up Schedule
(http://www.cdc.gov/nip/recs/child-schedule-color-print.pdf)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2006 Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule
(http://www.immunize.org/immschedules/immschedule_adult.pdf)
- Obesity Guidelines (developed internally from a review of the literature, review of guidelines from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association)
- Preventive Screening Guidelines for Healthy Adults (Plan developed and revised, 2006)
- Migraine Headache Guidelines (developed internally from a Specialty Advisory Group, literature review)
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea Guidelines (developed internally from a Specialty Advisory Group, literature review, BCBS Association)
- American College of Cardiology Foundation and American Heart Association Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Heart Failure in the Adult
(http://www.acc.org/qualityandscience/clinical/guidelines/failure/indexupdate101705_pkt.pdf )
- Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease – Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management and Prevention of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 2006
(http://www.goldcopd.com/Guidelineitem.asp?11=2&12=1&intId=989)
- American Psychiatric Association Guidelines for the Treatment of patients with substance abuse disorders, alcohol, cocaine, opiods(http://www.psych.org/psych_pract/treatg/pg/pg_substance.cfm)
- Practice Guideline for the treatment of Patients with Major Depressive Disorder, Second Edition (http://www.psych.org/psych_pract/treatg/pg/Depression2e.book.cfm)
If you would like to receive any or all of these guidelines by mail, please call (800)-924-3494 or email customerservice@bcbsvt.com.
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