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Welcome from The Director of The Christ Hospital Outpatient Clinic

Welcome to the electronic handout for the TCH Internal Medicine Outpatient Clinic. 

Our goals are to provide excellence in patient care and resident education in the TCH Outpatient Clinic. This disc will help achieve these goals by providing valuable tools and resources. 

Jill E Schuermann, MD

Clinic Basics

• Clinic Manual: The Policies and Procedures Manual for the TCH Outpatient Clinic. This document outlines the rules and processes that must be followed in the clinic.  

Clinic Forms

• Drug Contract
• Diabetes Flow Sheet

Recommended Reading Materials

The following is a list of recent additions to our web. Whenever we publish a paper, write a specification, submit a status report, or add anything else to our web, we'll put a notice here. Every month we'll remove the oldest items. The most recent changes are listed first, and each item is linked to the page with the updated content.

Evidence-Based Medicine

• Glossary of EBM Terms
• The Clinical Question
• Tips for Finding Clinical Information
• Medical Decision Making
• The Likelihood Ratio

Cholesterol Guidelines

• NCEP ATP-III At-a-Glance
• NCEP ATP-III Summary
• NCEP ATP-III Full Report
• NCEP ATP-III Update 2004
• NCEP ATP-III Risk Calculator for Palm 
  • Use your Palm Desktop software to install the program on your Palm PDA

Diabetes Guidelines

• Standards of Medical Care for Patients with Diabetes Mellitus 2008
• Diagnosis & Classification of Diabetes 2008
• Guidelines Web Site for Complete Listing of Guidelines

Hypertension Guidelines

• JNC 7
• JNC 7 Physician Card

Cardiovascular Guidelines

• ACC-AHA Heart Failure Guideline
• ACC-AHA Perioperative Assessment Guideline
• ACP Primary Care Management of CAD
• ACC-AHA Chronic Stable Angina Guideline
• ACC-AHA Acute Coronary Syndromes Guideline
• ACC-AHA ST segment MI Guideline
• ACC-AHA Management of Valvular Disease Guideline

Anticoagulation

• Management of Oral Anticoagulation Therapy 

Pain

• NPEC Primer on Pain Management
• Initial Pain Assessment Tool

Depression

• PDQ-9 Screening Tool for Depression
• Zung Self Assessment Depression Scale

Asthma

• NHLBI Asthma Guidelines (2002 Update)
• Stoplight Tool

COPD

• GOLD Guidelines (Update 2003)

Disability

• Social Security Blue Book

Internet Sites

Recommended internet sites for physicians grouped by topic. 

For Resident Physicians

Section with articles and links.

For Attending Physicians

Section with articles about teaching and evaluation as well as the forms that are used in the evaluation process. 

Copyright © 2004-2006 Matthew G Schuermann, MD
Last modified: June 24, 2008