Clinical Resources
DISCLAIMER REGARDING CARE GUIDES
These care guides are not fixed protocols that must be followed, but are intended for consideration of health care professionals and providers. 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. Individual patients may require different treatments from those specified in a given care guide. Care guides are not entirely inclusive or exclusive of all methods of reasonable care that can obtain/produce the same results. These care guides do not establish either a standard of care, or the minimally adequate care which meets constitutional standards.
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Advanced Liver Disease
Chronic Wound Management
Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever)
Cognitive Impairment/Dementia
Hunger Strike
Major Depressive Disorder
Pain Management
- Pain Management Part 1—Assessment Care Guide
- Pain Management Part 1—Assessment Care Guide – Summary (TEXT)
- Pain Management Part 2—Therapy—Non-Opioid Care Guide
- Pain Management Part 2—Therapy—Non-Opioid Care Guide – Summary (TEXT)
- Pain Management Part 3—Opioid Therapy Care Guide
- Pain Management Part 3—Opioid Therapy Care Guide – Summary (TEXT)
Seizure Disorders
Skin-Soft Tissue
Tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis – Surveillance Care Guide
- Tuberculosis – Surveillance Care Guide – Summary (TEXT)
- Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Isolation Care Guide
- Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Isolation Care Guide – Summary (TEXT)
- Tuberculosis Infection Management Care Guide
- Tuberculosis Infection Management Care Guide – Summary (TEXT)
- Tuberculosis Disease Care Guide
- Tuberculosis Disease Care Guide – Summary (TEXT)
- CCHCS Care Guide: Tuberculosis Contact Investigation
- CCHCS Care Guide: Tuberculosis Contact Investigation – Summary (TEXT)