Healthy Guidelines

Standard Treatment Guidelines

Standard Treatment Guidelines play critical role in ensuring evidence based clinical practice and quality of care. Taskforce on Standard Treatment Guidelines Have worked towards developing evidence based clinical guidelines and implementation tools.

Standard Treatment Guidelines, also termed as clinical guidelines and clinical protocols are component of health services provisioning to ensure evidence based medicine and quality of care. At health system level it helps in planning and costing of services. Standards Treatment Guidelines also become important tool for monitoring and authorising procedure in a public funded health insurance schemes. With this quality control, regulatory and planning functions standard treatment guidelines become indispensable tools both for public and private service providers

Understanding its importance, Ministry of Health & Family welfare commissioned a Taskforce on Standard Treatment Guidelines Which comprised of eminent clinicians and representations from important stakeholders such as ICMR, DGHS , FICCI, civil society organizations and academic institutions. NHSRC was designated as secretariat for this taskforce. The objective of this taskforce was to collate and review the existing standards treatment guidelines as well as identify the procedures/ conditions where fresh development of Standard treatment Guidelines is required. Taskforce was also mandated to suggest principles / protocols by which guidelines are reviewed and updated. Taskforce was also asked to update the existing guidelines and companion documents aimed at treating doctors, insurance program teams, patients and clinical reviewers/ medical auditors.

Health management

Monitor blood pressure: Check your blood pressure regularly.

Take medication correctly: Take antibiotics and other prescription medications only as directed

8 tips for healthy eating

Base your meals on higher fibre starchy carbohydrates. ...

Eat lots of fruit and veg. ...

Eat more fish, including a portion of oily fish. ...

Cut down on saturated fat and sugar. ...

Eat less salt: no more than 6g a day for adults. ...

Get active and be a healthy weight. ...

Do not get thirsty. ...

Do not skip breakfast.

Clinical Practice Guidelines

“Clinical practice guidelines are systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances.”(Institute of Medicine, 1990)

Issued by third-party organizations, and not NCCIH, these guidelines define the role of specific diagnostic and treatment modalities in the diagnosis and management of patients. The statements contain recommendations that are based on evidence from a rigorous systematic review and synthesis of the published medical literature.

These guidelines are not fixed protocols that must be followed, but are intended for health care professionals and providers to consider. While they identify and describe generally recommended courses of intervention, they are not presented as a substitute for the advice of a physician or other knowledgeable health care professional or provider.