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National Institutes of Health COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel: Perspectives and Lessons Learned. Ann Intern Med 2024 Nov;177(11):1547-1557

Date

09/30/2024

Pubmed ID

39348691

DOI

10.7326/ANNALS-24-00464

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85209732481 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   9 Citations

Abstract

DESCRIPTION: In March 2020, the White House Coronavirus Task Force determined that clinicians in the United States needed expert treatment guidelines to optimally manage patients with COVID-19, a potentially life-threatening disease caused by a new pathogen for which no specific treatments were known to be effective.

METHODS: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services requested that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) take the lead in expeditiously convening a panel of experts to create "living" guidelines that would be widely accessible and capable of frequent updating as important new information became available.

RECOMMENDATIONS: The purpose of this article is to expand on the experiences of the NIH COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel (the Panel) over the past 4 years, summarize the Panel's final recommendations for COVID-19, highlight some challenges and unanswered questions about COVID-19 management, and inform future responses to public health emergencies. The Panel was formed in March 2020, and the first iteration of the guidelines was released in April 2020. Now that the public health emergency has ended, the NIH COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines have sunsetted. This role will now fall to professional societies and organizations, such as the American College of Physicians, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, and the World Health Organization, all of which have been active in this area.

Author List

Gulick RM, Pau AK, Daar E, Evans L, Gandhi RT, Tebas P, Ridzon R, Masur H, Lane HC, NIH COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel, Adimora AA, Baker J, Kreuziger LB, Bedimo R, Belperio P, Bhalla A, Burgess T, Campbell D, Cantrill S, Chew K, Chiotos K, Coopersmith C, Davey R, Dzierba A, Eisnor D, Eschenauer G, Francis J, Gallagher J, Glidden D, Goldenberg N, Grund B, Han A, Hardy E, Harrison C, Henderson L, Higgs E, Hinkson C, Hughes B, Johnson S, Keller M, Kim A, Knight R, Kuriakose S, Lennox J, Lerner A, Levy M, Li J, MacBrayne C, Martin G, Nadig N, Nason M, Patel P, Pavia A, Proschan M, Schulert G, Seam N, Sheikh V, Simpson S, Singh K, Swindells S, Tien P, Uyeki T, Waghmare A, Wolfe C, Yazdany J, Aberg J

Author

Lisa M. Baumann Kreuziger MD Professor in the Medicine department at Medical College of Wisconsin

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Antiviral Agents
Humans
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Practice Guidelines as Topic
United States