Key features of currently available clinical management aids designed to standardise an approach to priority conditions
| Management aid | Integrated acute and chronic conditions (NCDs, IDs, MH) | Symptom based | Evidence based | Less developed setting | Primary healthcare based | User friendly | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IMCI6 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Limited to childhood illnesses | ||
| IMAI13 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ▸ HIV focused ▸ Limited coverage of chronic conditions ▸ Modular | |
| PEN Interventions for Primary Health Care in Low-Resource Settings14 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ▸ Text format ▸ Limited to NCDs ▸ Focus on HIV | |||
| IMPAC15 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ▸ Limited to obstetric and newborn care ▸ Modular | |
| mhGAP Intervention Guide16 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Limited to mental, neurological and substance use disorders | |
| TEAMcare intervention manual17 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ▸ Integrated to depression, diabetes and coronary heart disease ▸ Developed settings | |||
| FNIHB Clinical Practice Guidelines for Nurses in Primary Care18 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ▸ Text format ▸ Modules | |||
| Queensland Government PCCM19 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Text format | ||
| New Zealand Primary Care Handbook 201220 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ▸ Developed setting ▸ Text format with some algorithms |
FNIHB, first Nations and inuit health branch; IDs, infectious diseases; IMAI, Integrated Management of Adult and Adolescent Illness; IMCI, Integrated Management of Childhood Illness; MH, mental health; mhGAp, Mental Health Gap Action Programme; NCDs, Non-communicable diseases; PCCM, primary clinical care manual; PEN, package of essential Non-communicable disease.