{"id":6608,"date":"2020-04-14T16:16:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T08:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wahtn.org\/?p=6608"},"modified":"2020-04-14T16:16:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T08:16:27","slug":"new-covid-19-clinical-guidelines-to-help-australian-clinicians-deliver-best-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/2020\/04\/14\/new-covid-19-clinical-guidelines-to-help-australian-clinicians-deliver-best-care\/","title":{"rendered":"New COVID-19 Clinical Guidelines to help Australian clinicians deliver best care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A coalition of peak Australian experts have come together to develop new \u2018living guidelines\u2019 that will provide continuously-updated, evidence-based guidance to clinicians treating people with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 infections across primary, acute and critical care settings.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.covid19evidence.net.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guidelines<\/a><\/strong> will form a key part of Australia\u2019s response to COVID-19. Clinicians are being encouraged to submit questions or suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>The National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce is convened by the Australian Living Evidence Consortium, based at Cochrane Australia at Monash University. The Taskforce received $1.5 million from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) to deliver the guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>The initial focus of the guidelines will be:<br \/>\n\u2022 definitions of disease severity<br \/>\n\u2022 monitoring and markers of clinical deterioration<br \/>\n\u2022 antiviral medications and other disease modifying treatments<br \/>\n\u2022 respiratory support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coalition of peak Australian experts have come together to develop new \u2018living guidelines\u2019 that will provide continuously-updated, evidence-based guidance to clinicians treating people with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 infections across primary, acute and critical care settings. The guidelines will form a key part of Australia\u2019s response to COVID-19. Clinicians are being encouraged to submit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}