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Guidelines and Recommendations
This collection is a one-stop shop for guidelines or recommendations developed by CDC, CDC working in collaboration with other organizations or agencies, or by CDC federal advisory committees. These documents contain statements that include recommendations, strategies, and/or information that assists decision makers (such as healthcare providers, federal, state or private agencies, employers, public health officials, or the public) in choosing between alternative courses of action in specific situations. Ultimately, these documents are focused on providing actionable steps to address a specific issue of importance to public health.

The topical areas covered include surveillance, investigation, diagnosis, treatment, intervention, prevention, control, and public health preparedness among others for several diseases and conditions.
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  • 2007 Guideline for isolation precautions preventing transmission of infectious agents in healthcare settings
    Filetype[PDF - 1.44 MB]
    Personal Author:
    Siegel, Jane D.; Rhinehart, Emily; Jackson, Marguerite; Chiarello, Linda;
    Corporate Authors:
    Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (U.S.). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). National Center for Preparedness, Detection, and Control of Infectious Diseases (U.S.), Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion..
    Published Date:
    2007. Last update: September 29, 2018
    Description:
    2007. Last update: September, 2018The Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings 2007 updates and expands the 1996 Guideline for Isolation Precautions in Hospitals. The following developme...
    Status:
    current
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 1.44 MB]
  • Bicycle and Pedestrian Curricula Guide: Making the Case for Bicycle and Pedestrian Youth Education
    Filetype[PDF - 55.90 MB]
    Corporate Authors:
    National Center for Environmental Health (U.S.)
    Published Date:
    February 2011
    Description:
    The guide offers Safe Routes to School practitioners, teachers, school administrators and others background information on the benefits of teaching bicycle and pedestrian education in the classroom, and provide these audiences with easy access to cur...
    Status:
    current
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 55.90 MB]
  • Interim recommendations for airborne exposure limits for chemical warfare agents H and HD (sulfur mustard).
    Filetype[PDF - 91.49 KB]
    Corporate Authors:
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
    Published Date:
    May 3, 2004
    Description:
    Federal Register. 2004; 69(85):24164–8.SUMMARY: Agents H and HD are stored and are being destroyed by the Department of Defense (DoD). Public Law 99–145 (50 U.S.C. 1521) mandates that the Secretary of Defense carry out the destruction of the Unit...
    Status:
    current
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 91.49 KB]
  • Recommendations for HIV prevention with adults and adolescents with HIV in the United States, 2014 : Summary for clinical providers
    Filetype[PDF - 3.57 MB]
    Corporate Authors:
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). United States. Health Resources and Services Administration.. National Institutes of Health (U.S.). American Academy of HIV Medicine.. Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.. International Association of Providers of AIDS Care.. National Minority AIDS Council.. Urban Coalition for HIV/AIDS Prevention Services.. National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention..
    Published Date:
    December 11, 2014 (amended December 30, 2016)
    Description:
    The December 11, 2014, version of Recommendations for HIV Prevention with Adults and Adolescents with HIV in the United States, 2014, and its companion summaries have been amended in December 2016 to correct errata, outdated or broken hyperlinks, and...
    Status:
    current
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 3.57 MB]
  • Wheat and maize flour fortification : practical recommendations for national application
    Filetype[PDF - 334.80 KB]
    Corporate Authors:
    World Health Organization.. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.. United Nations Children's Fund.. Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition.. Micronutrient Initiative.. Flour Fortification Initiative..
    Published Date:
    2008
    Description:
    This position statement is based on scientific reviews prepared for a Flour Fortification Initiative (FFI) technical workshop held in Stone Mountain, GA, USA in 2008 where various organizations actively engaged in the prevention and control of vitami...
    Status:
    current
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 334.80 KB]
  • Tuberculosis among Foreign-born Persons Entering the United States. Recommendations of the Advisory Committee for Elimination of Tuberculosis
    Filetype[HTM]
    Corporate Authors:
    Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Tuberculosis (U.S.). Centers for Disease Control (U.S.).
    Published Date:
    December 28, 1990
    Source:
    MMWR. Recommendations and reports : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Recommendations and reports / Centers for Disease Control. 1990; 39(RR-18):1-21.
    Description:
    In 1989, the Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee for Elimination of Tuberculosis published a plan for eliminating tuberculosis from the United States by the year 2010. This plan gives a top priority to implementing strategies t...
    Status:
    current
    File Type:
    Filetype[HTM]
  • Revised recommendations for HIV testing of adults, adolescents, and pregnant women in health-care settings
    Filetype[PDF - 255.14 KB]
    Personal Author:
    Branson, Bernard M.; Handsfield, H. Hunter; Lampe, Margaret A.; Janssen, Robert S.; Taylor, Allan W.; Lyss, Sheryl B.; Clark, Jill E.;
    Corporate Authors:
    National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.).
    Published Date:
    September 22, 2006
    Series:
    MMWR. Recommendations and reports : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Recommendations and reports ; v. 55, no. RR-14
    Description:
    "These recommendations for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing are intended for all health-care providers in the public and private sectors, including those working in hospital emergency departments, urgent care clinics, inpatient services, su...
    Status:
    current
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 255.14 KB]
  • A Strategic plan for the elimination of tuberculosis in the United States
    Filetype[PDF - 21.49 MB]
    Corporate Authors:
    Center for Prevention Services (U.S.). Division of Tuberculosis Control.. United States. Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis..
    Published Date:
    April 21, 1989
    Series:
    MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report ; v. 38, suppl. 3
    HHS publication ; no. (CDC) 85-8017
    Description:
    In 1987, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services established an Advisory Committee for Elimination of Tuberculosis to provide recommendations for developing new technology, applying prevention and control methods, and managi...
    Status:
    superseded
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 21.49 MB]
  • CDC/AHA Workshop on Markers of Inflammation and Cardiovascular Disease: Application to Clinical and Public Health Practice: report from the clinical practice discussion group
    Filetype[HTM]
    Published Date:
    December 21/28, 2004
    Source:
    Circulation. 2004; 110(25):e550-3.
    Description:
    No Description
    Status:
    current
    File Type:
    Filetype[HTM]
  • Voluntary guidelines for managing food allergies in schools and early care and education programs.
    Filetype[PDF - 10.93 MB]
    Personal Author:
    Hunt, Pete
    Corporate Authors:
    National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Division of Population Health.. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). National Institutes of Health (U.S.). United States. Administration for Children and Families.. United States. Department of Agriculture.. United States. Department of Education.. United States. Department of Health and Human Services.. United States. Department of Justice.. United States. Food and Drug Administration..
    Published Date:
    10/31/13
    Description:
    These guidelines, Voluntary Guidelines for Managing Food Allergies in Schools and Early Care and Education Programs (hereafter called the Voluntary Guidelines for Managing Food Allergies), were developed in response to Section 112 of the FDA Food Saf...
    Status:
    current
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 10.93 MB]
  • Recommended childhood immunization schedule--United States, 1995. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    Filetype[PDF - 173.19 KB]
    Published Date:
    June 16, 1995
    Source:
    MMWR. Recommendations and reports : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Recommendations and reports / Centers for Disease Control. 1995; 44(RR-5):1-9.
    Description:
    The need for a single childhood immunization schedule prompted the unification of previous vaccine recommendations made by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). In addition to presenting...
    Status:
    superseded
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 173.19 KB]
  • Recommendations for reporting on suicide