:: Guidelines and Recommendations ::

With the current focus for an improvement on overall patient care and a need to drastically cut medical costs, many national organizations, such as the CDC and ACOG, frequently come out with guidelines and recommendations in order to better the quality of life for a patient.

The following are links to very important issues pertaining to women’s health today:

CDC 2006 STD Treatment Guidelines (Includes Chlamydia, Gonorrhea and HIV)
http://www.cdc.gov/std/treatment/default.htm

Take Action on Hedis: Chlamydia Screening Recommendations
http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/dstd/Reports_Publications/HMOletter.pdf

Prevention of Perinatal Group B Streptococcal Disease: Revised Guidelines from CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5111a1.htm

Cystic Fibrosis Testing
http://www.acog.org/publications/patient_education/cf001.cfm

HPV Testing
http://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/default.htm

Laboratory Report – a Newsletter from DCL Medical Laboratories

Laboratory Report Issue 2

http://www.dcla.com/documents/news_9_07_i2.pdf

“2007 AHA guidelines focus on women’s lifetime risk for CVD”
“Heart Association websites provide guidelines, resources”
“Featured Client: OB/GYN Health Partners - member of St. Louis-based Signature Health Services”
“Study shows women are less likely to have LDL cholesterol under control”

Laboratory Report Issue 1

http://www.dcla.com/documents/news_6_07_i1.pdf

"CMS adopts contingency plan for NPI compliance deadline"
"CDC provides new HPV resources for clinicians, patients"
"Featured Client: Women’s Health Partnership, PC: largest OB/Gyn partnership in Indiana"
"Breast cancer rate decline suggests correlation to decreased hormone replacement therapy use"

Medical Updates

ACOG and CDC release revised recommendations for HIV testing

http://www.dcla.com/pdf/mu_hiv_screening_000.pdf

HPV testing: an important weapon in the fight against cervical cancer

http://www.dcla.com/pdf/dcl_medical_update_dnawithpap.pdf

FDA-approved HPV vaccine raises questions – DCL offers answers

http://www.dcla.com/pdf/mu_hpv_vaccine_7_26_06_001.pdf

DCL Medical Laboratories introduces the exCellerator™ spatula for ThinPrep® Pap Testing

http://www.dcla.com/pdf/medical_update_excellerator.pdf

Pap test technologies: How do they measure up?

http://www.dcla.com/pdf/mupdate.pdf

Prenatal Strep Testing Goes Molecular!

http://www.dcla.com/pdf/prenatal.pdf

DCL Medical Laboratories First in Central Indiana to Offer Enhanced Pap Screening Technology for the Detection of Cervical Cancer

http://www.dcla.com/pdf/2.pdf

DCL Offers DNA Testing for Preconceptual and Prenatal Carrier Screening for Cystic Fibrosis

http://www.dcla.com/pdf/newpr.pdf

DCL First to offer Chlamydia Testing directly from ThinPrep Pap Test Vial

http://www.dcla.com/pdf/pressrelease.pdf