Clinical Practice Guideline: Nosebleed (Epistaxis)

Clinical Practice Guideline: Nosebleed (Epistaxis)

This clinical practice guideline (CPG) is intended for all clinicians who evaluate and treat patients with nosebleed. The target population for the guideline is any individual aged three years or older with a nosebleed or history of nosebleed who needs medical treatment or seeks medical advice. The purpose of this multidisciplinary CPG is to identify quality improvement opportunities in managing patients with nosebleeds and to create explicit and actionable recommendations to implement these opportunities in clinical practice. The goals outlined in this CPG are to promote best practices, reduce unjustified variations in care of patients with nosebleed, improve health outcomes, and minimize the potential harms of nosebleed and/or interventions to treat nosebleed.

Leadership

David E. Tunkel, MD (Chair); Samantha Anne, MD, MS (Assistant-Chair); Spencer C. Payne, MD (Assistant-Chair); Stacey L. Ishman, MD, MPH (Methodologist); Richard M. Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, MBA (Methodologist).

Guideline Development Group

Peter J. Abramson, MD; Jacqueline D. Alikhaani; Margo McKenna Benoit, MD; Rachel S. Bercovitz, MD, MS; Michael D. Brown, MD, MSc; Boris Chernobilsky, MD; David A. Feldstein, MD; Jesse M. Hackell, MD; Eric H. Holbrook, MD; Sarah M. Holdsworth, MSN, APRN; Kenneth W. Lin, MD, MPH; Meredith Merz Lind, MD; David M. Poetker, MD, MA; Charles A. Riley, MD; John S. Schneider MD, MA; Michael D. Seidman, MD; Venu Vadlamudi, MD; Tulio A. Valdez, MD; Lorraine C. Nnacheta, MPH, DrPH; Taskin M. Monjur.

Endorsements

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), American College of Radiology (ACR), American Rhinologic Society (ARS), American Society of Hematology (ASH), American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology (ASPO), Cure Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (Cure HHT), Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR), Society of Neurointerventional Surgery, Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Head-Neck Nurses (SOHN), The Triological Society

Affirmation of Value

Affirmation of value means that AGS supports the general principles in this document and believes it is of general benefit to its membership.

Amerian Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

American Geriatrics Society (AGS)

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