AAN Practice Guidelines & Tools

The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) develops clinical practice guidelines to assist its members in clinical decision making related to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of neurologic disorders. Each guideline makes specific practice recommendations based upon a rigorous and comprehensive evaluation of all available scientific data.

To learn more about AAN clinical practice guidelines, read the following articles published in Neurology®.

Invited Article: Lost in a jungle of evidence: We need a compass Neurology 2008 71: 1634-1638.

Invited Article: Practice parameters and technology assessments: What they are, what they are not, and why you should care Neurology 2008 71: 1639-1643.

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Featured Guidelines

Most Recently Published Guidelines
Treatment of Nonmotor Symptoms of Parkinson Disease	Mar 2010
Symptomatic Treatment for Muscle Cramps	Feb 2010
Pharmacological Treatment of Spasticity in Children and Adolescents with Cerebral Palsy	Jan 2010
Efficacy of Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation in the Treatment of Pain in Neurologic Disorders	Jan 2010
Diagnosis and management of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, part 1: diagnosis, and pharmacological and psychosocial management	Nov 2009
Most Frequently Accessed Guidelines
Update: Management Issues for Women with Epilepsy-Focus on Pregnancy: Vitamin K, Folic Acid, Blood Levels, and Breastfeeding Click here for more Epilepsy guidelines.	Jul 2009
Update: Management Issues for Women with Epilepsy-Focus on Pregnancy: Obstetrical Complications and Change in Seizure Frequency Click here for more Epilepsy guidelines.	Jul 2009
The Diagnostic Evaluation and Treatment of Trigeminal Neuralgia Click here for more guidelines in our Other category.	Oct 2008
The Use of Natalizumab (Tysabri) for the Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis Click here for more Multiple Sclerosis guidelines.	Sep 2008
Therapies for Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo Click here for more guidelines in our Other category.	May 2008

From this page you can access full text versions of AAN guidelines, clinician summaries, patient versions, slide presentations, PDA versions, and other tools to help you learn about and use the guidelines.

The AAN also offers an enhanced, in-depth search tool, enabling members to find the right guideline or associated tool to care for patients. Search the full text of any Academy guideline or tool, or limit a search to specific topics, tools, or date ranges. Sort the results by date, topic, relevance or tool type.

AAN guidelines are used to:

Improve health outcomes of patients
Stay abreast of the latest in clinical research
Appeal payment denials
Provide Medico-legal protection
Advocate for fair reimbursement
Determine whether your practice follows current, best evidence
Affirm the role of neurologists in the diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders
Influence public or hospital policy
Promote efficient use of resources
Identify research priorities based on gaps in current literature

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Laura Moses

Guideline Development Editor
lmoses@aan.com
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