International guidelines

United Kingdom

Ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage: diagnosis and initial management

Published by:National Institute of Health and Care Excellence

Last published:2023

Europe

Diverticular disease: diagnosis and management

Published by:National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Last published:2019

Guideline for the diagnostic pathway in patients with acute abdominal pain

Published by:Association of Surgeons of the Netherlands

Last published:2015

Guidelines of diagnostics and treatment of acute left-sided colonic diverticulitis

Published by:Netherlands Society of Surgery; Netherlands Societies of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterologists, Radiology, Health Technology Assessment and Dieticians

Last published:2013

North America

2024 clinical practice guideline update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America on complicated intra-abdominal infections: risk assessment, diagnostic imaging, and microbiological evaluation in adults, children, and pregnant people

Published by:Infectious Diseases Society of America

Last published:2024

SAGES guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of appendicitis

Published by:Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons

Last published:2024

ACR appropriateness criteria: left lower quadrant pain

Published by:American College of Radiology

Last published:2023

Diagnosis and management of acute left-sided colonic diverticulitis: a clinical guideline from the American College of Physicians

Published by:American College of Physicians

Last published:2022

ACR appropriateness criteria: right lower quadrant pain

Published by:American College of Radiology

Last published:2022

ACR appropriateness criteria: right upper quadrant pain

Published by:American College of Radiology

Last published:2022

ACOG practice bulletin: tubal ectopic pregnancy

Published by:American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Last published:2018 (reaffirmed 2022)

ACR appropriateness criteria: acute nonlocalized abdominal pain

Published by:American College of Radiology

Last published:2018

Ultrasound in pregnancy

Published by:American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Last published:2016 (reaffirmed 2022)

Asia

Practice guidelines for primary care of acute abdomen 2015

Published by:Japanese Society for Abdominal Emergency Medicine

Last published:2016

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