Clinical Practice Guidelines

Adapting Your Practice: Treatment and Recommendations for Homeless Patients
Clinicians who routinely care for homeless people recognize the need to  take their patients' living situation and co-occurring disorders into consideration when developing a plan of care. Standard clinical practice guidelines fail to address the special challenges faced by homeless patients that may limit their ability to adhere to a plan of care. To fill this gap, the HCH Clinicians’ Network has made the adaptation of clinical practice guidelines for homeless patients one of its top priorities.
Eight sets of adapted clinical guidelines on...
  Diabetes Mellitus,
  Asthma,
  Chlamydial or Gonococcal Infections,
  Otitis Media,
  Reproductive Health Care,
  HIV/AIDS,
  Cardiovascular Diseases, and
  General Recommendations for the Care of Homeless Patients
may be downloaded free from this website or ordered using our Publications Order Form.

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The National Guideline Clearinghouse website: Search for a specific guideline or for "homeless" to see abstracts of all adapted clinical guidelines developed by the Health Care for the Homeless Clinicians' Network. Abstracts were prepared by the Agency for Healthcare Reserach and Quality's (AHRQ) National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) in collaboration with the Network. Once you have selected an abstract on the NGC web site, click on Palm Download under Summary to see instructions for downloading it to your PDA (also available here).

Abbreviated General Recommendations for the Care of Homeless Patients, prepared by the HCH Clinicians' Network: An outline of main points contained in the 44-page adapted clinical guideline, which is also available for Palm Download in three formats:

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