Clinical Guidelines for Urgent Care Centers

The following is a list of clinical practice guidelines gleaned from a variety of sources available on the web. These were chosen to be the most up-to-date and pertinent to the practice of Urgent Care Medicine.

As this is a work in progress, let us know if there are guidelines to be added. Contributions and requests can be emailed to guidelines@ucaoa.org.

• ACLS 2005
• Acute Abdominal Pain, Adults 2008
• Anaphylaxis 2005
• Ankle and Foot Pain 2007
• Asthma 2007 (scroll to pp. 52-60 for management of acute exacerbations)
• Basic Life Support 2005
• Burns 2007
• Bronchiolitis 2006
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome 2003
• Cellulitis 2006
• Chest Pain 2006
• Cholesterol 2001 ATP 3
• Closed Head Injury - Pediatric 1999
• Consent for Minors - Policy Statement 2007
• Depression 2007
• Diabetes 2007
• Diarrhea, Infectious 2000
• Domestic Violence 2006
• DVT 2003
• Elbow Pain 2007
• Emergency Preparedness - Pediatrics 2005
• Eye Conditions and Injuries 2004
• Fever, under age 3 2003
• Fitness for Duty 2006
• Foodborne Illness 2004
• Gonorrhea Update 2007
• Headache Diagnosis 2004
• Headache Treatment 2007
• Head Trauma, Adult 2007
• Hernia 2007
• Hip Pain 2007
• Hypertension 2006
• Knee Pain 2007
• Low Back Pain 2007
• Neck Pain 2007
• Otitis Media 2004
• Pain, acute 2007
• Pain, chronic 2006
• Pharyngitis 2006
• Pneumonia 2007
• Shoulder Pain 2007
• Sinusitis in Adults 2004
• Sinusitis in Children 2001
• STD Treatment 2006
• Stress Disorders 2007
• Travel Medicine 2006
• Tuberculosis 2005
• Upper Resipiratory Infection 2007
• Upper Respiratory Tract Infection - Adult 2006
• Upper Respiratory Tract Infection - Pediatric 2007
• Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) 2006
• Wrist and Hand Pain 2007