Clinical Practice Guidelines: Free Quick Reference Summaries

Free clinical guideline quick references: the bottom line of each major guideline, the key recommendations with their grades, and what changed since the last version, in our own words with links to the source. Updated when the societies publish.

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Cardiology

2025 ACC/AHA High Blood Pressure Guideline: Quick ReferenceAHA/ACC and 11 partner societies · 2025Categories are unchanged: normal under 120/80, elevated 120 to 129 systolic, stage 1 130 to 139 or 80 to 89, stage 2 140/90 or higher.
2026 ACC/AHA Cholesterol Guideline (Dyslipidemia): Quick ReferenceACC/AHA and 9 partner societies · 2026Estimate 10- and 30-year ASCVD risk with the PREVENT-ASCVD equations in adults 30 to 79.

Endocrinology

ADA Standards of Care in Diabetes 2026: Quick ReferenceAmerican Diabetes Association · 2026Offer continuous glucose monitoring from diagnosis to people on insulin or on other drugs that can cause hypoglycemia.

Nephrology

KDIGO 2024 CKD Guideline and Staging: Quick ReferenceKidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) · 2024CKD means abnormal kidney structure or function for more than 3 months: an eGFR under 60, or markers of damage such as albuminuria.

Prevention and primary care

USPSTF Cancer Screening Guidelines: Quick ReferenceU.S. Preventive Services Task Force · October 2026Breast: mammography every 2 years from 40 to 74 (B).

Pulmonology

Radiology

Fleischner Society 2017 Pulmonary Nodule Guidelines: Quick ReferenceFleischner Society · 2017For nodules found incidentally on CT in adults 35 and older; not for lung cancer screening (use Lung-RADS), people with known cancer, or people who…

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ADA Standards of Care in Diabetes 2026 · December 2026 (Standards of Care 2027)
GINA 2026 strategy report · May 2027
GOLD 2026 report · November 2026 (GOLD 2027 report)
USPSTF cancer screening recommendations · Cervical and prostate updates in progress

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