Legacy of Excellence Digital Flipbook

LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE

From 2012-2016, the following clinical practice guidelines and clinical consensus statements were published: March 2012: Clinical Practice Guideline: Sudden Hearing Loss November 2012: Clinical Consensus Statement: CT Imaging Indications for Paranasal Sinus Disease January 2013: Clinical Consensus Statement: Tracheostomy Care June 2013: Clinical Practice Guideline: Improving Voice Outcomes after Thyroid Surgery July 2013: Clinical Practice Guideline: Tympanostomy Tubes in Children November 2013: Clinical Practice Guideline: Bell’s Palsy January 2014: Clinical Practice Guideline: Acute Otitis Externa (Update) October 2014: Clinical Practice Guideline: Tinnitus October 2014: Clinical Consensus Statement: Pediatric Chronic Rhinosinusitis February 2015: Clinical Practice Guideline: Allergic Rhinitis April 2015: Clinical Practice Guideline: Adult Sinusitis (Update) November 2015 : Clinical Consensus Statement: Septoplasty with or without Inferior Turbinate Reduction February 2016: Clinical Practice Guideline: Otitis Media with Effusion (Update)

The planning meeting of the Bell’s Palsy Guideline Development Group in 2012.

The AAO-HNSF worked diligently in the years prior and throughout this timeframe to build a robust program committing to efforts that were effective and important markers demonstrating the Academy’s leadership in real quality improvement. “We not only accept, but champion the challenge of identifying potential gaps in knowledge and care and addressing what we as a specialty and as individual surgeons can do to improve patient outcomes while more effectively managing finite resources. Our Guidelines Development Task Force and its work groups, the Advisory Council on Quality, and our stable of evidence-based guidelines and endorsed performance measures are all demonstrations of our commitment to improve care in meaningful ways,” said Dr. Nielsen in the May 2012 Bulletin . In January 2013, the Third Edition of AAO HNSF Guideline Development Manual published an update to developing guidelines as a supplement to Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery , which was cited by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (SMSS) in their work on guidelines. The lead author of Clinical Practice Guideline Development, 3rd Edition: A Quality-Driven Approach for Translating Evidence into Action was

Richard M. Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, MBA, and Richard W. Waguespack, MD, discuss with attendees the scope of developing a clinical practice guideline.

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