NGC Update Service: October 8, 2012

October 8, 2012 New This Week Guideline Summaries American Cancer Society Nutrition and physical activity guidelines for cancer survivors. This updates a previously published guideline summary. American College of Physicians Screening for colorectal cancer: a guidance statement from the American College of Physicians. American Urological Association Education and Research, Inc. Diagnosis, evaluation and follow-up of asymptomatic microhematuria (AMH) in adults: AUA guideline. This updates a previously published guideline summary. Vasectomy: AUA guideline. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U.S.) Diabetes mellitus and other conditions predisposing to the development of accelerated atherosclerosis. In: Expert panel on integrated guidelines for cardiovascular health and risk reduction in children and adolescents. Family history of early atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. In: Expert panel on integrated guidelines for cardiovascular health and risk reduction in children and adolescents. High blood pressure. In: Expert panel on integrated guidelines for cardiovascular health and risk reduction in children and adolescents. Lipids and lipoproteins. In: Expert panel on integrated guidelines for cardiovascular health and risk reduction in children and adolescents. Nutrition and diet. In: Expert panel on integrated guidelines for cardiovascular health and risk reduction in children and adolescents. Overweight and obesity. In: Expert panel on integrated guidelines for cardiovascular health and risk reduction in children and adolescents. Perinatal factors. In: Expert panel on integrated guidelines for cardiovascular health and risk reduction in children and adolescents. Physical activity. In: Expert panel on integrated guidelines for cardiovascular health and risk reduction in children and adolescents. Risk factor clustering and the metabolic syndrome. In: Expert panel on integrated guidelines for cardiovascular health and risk reduction in children and adolescents. Tobacco exposure. In: Expert panel on integrated guidelines for cardiovascular health and risk reduction in children and adolescents. Announcements How to Participate Submit guidelines: Visit our Submit Guidelines page for information on how to submit your organization's guidelines. Suggest a guideline for possible inclusion: Submit your suggestions for evidence-based guidelines that you would like to see included in NGC. Suggest a Guideline Synthesis topic: We welcome your suggestions for guideline synthesis topics! Health Awareness Topics - October 2012 National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (see related guidelines and guideline synthesis) National Down Syndrome Awareness Month (see related guidelines) Conference News Save the Date! G-I-N North America is co-sponsoring with the Section on Evidence Based Health Care (SEBHC) of The New York Academy of Medicine a two-day conference on "Evidence-Based Guidelines Affecting Policy, Practice and Stakeholders (E-GAPPS)." The conference will be held December 10-11, 2012 in New York City. Registration is open and conference information is available at http://www.nyam.org/egapps2012. The Guidelines International Network North America (G-I-N NA) continues to sponsor a monthly webinar series on topics of interest to the North American guideline community. Information on upcoming webinars, as well as audio files and slides from past webinars, is available on the G-I-N Web site. NGC's Sister Resources Find Innovations and QualityTools classified by disease or clinical category, patient population, setting of care, stage of care, and more in AHRQ's Health Care Innovations Exchange Web site. Look for Quality Measures in AHRQ's National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC).    How satisfied are you with this e-mail bulletin? Give Us Your Feedback