Clinical guidelines

• Initial assessment and screening
  
• Anaemia and iron deficiency
• Birth date issues
• Clinical practice guideline (focus on ED presentations)
  
• Developmental assessment
• Disability
• Education assessment
  
• Growth and nutrition
• Helicobacter pylori
• Hepatitis B screening
• Immunisation catch-up
  
• Malaria screening
• Mental health
• Oral health
• Parasite infections
• Schistosomiasis
  
• Strongyloidiasis
• STI screening
• Syphilis screening
• Tuberculosis screening
• Vitamin A
  
• Vitamin B12
• Vitamin D, RCH CPG Vitamin D deficiency and vitamin D supplements photoboard
  

Other guidelines/resources

• Adolescent health
• Afghan refugees -  key issues (Sep 2021)
• Arsenic contamination of traditional Burmese medicines  
  
  • Arsenic - further information
  • (Lead - further information)
• Asylum seekers (also see SRSS - summary for clinicians)
  
• Care of children in immigration detention (RCH procedure - intranet only)
• Caseworker resources
• Critical health alerts
  
• Female circumcision resource - Family Planning Victoria
• HAPlite - summary for clinicians
• Interpreters
• Lead - further information  
• Non-residents in Australia - useful health resources (pending)
• Palestinian refugees - key issues
  
• Refugee policy and timeline
• SRSS - summary for clinicians
• Syrian refugees - key issues
• Ukrainian refugees - key issues
  

Clinical guidelines - external

General refugee guidelines

• ASID and RHeaNA: 2016 Refugee Guidelines 
  • Quick guide screening tests in children 2024
  • Quick guide screening tests in adults 2024
• Australian Refugee Health Practice Guide (2018) primary care guidelines based on 2016 Refugee Guidelines - also see (links hard to find):
  • Child/adolescent screening 
  • Child and adolescent health bookletPlease contact us if you would like a hard copy
    
• DHA - Panel member instructions (Jul 2024) and DHC supporting material (Aug 2024)
  
• Canadian guidelines for immigrant health also see Cochrane site
• CDC Refugee health - Domestic medical screening
• Minnesota refugee health assessment (June 2023)
  
• Refugee health technical assistance center (various American guidelines)
  

Tuberculosis

• Victorian Tuberculosis Program, Victorian Child and Adolescent Tuberculosis screening (2021), DH - Tuberculosis 
• CDC Tuberculosis (various)
• ATS/IDSA/CDC clinical practice guidelines (2016): Diagnosis of tuberculosis in adults and children
• McGill University online TST/IGRA interpreter and TB risk calculator - for age 18y+ (likely less accurate for young children) - helpful if trying to explain risk to a family
  
• NICE tuberculosis (2016, updated 2024)
• National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee (NTAC), including policy statements
  
  • Annual reports: Tuberculosis notifications in Australia (to 2018)
  • Consensus statement on use of 4m treatment regimen in children <10y (2022)
  • Position statement on the use of IGRA (2017)
    
  • Policy recommendation: Latent tuberculosis infection screening and treatment in children in immigration detention (2015)
    
  • National position statement for the management of latent tuberculosis infection (2017)
    
• WHO: Tuberculosis - includes consolidated guidelines:
  • Module 1: Prevention: Tuberculosis preventive treatment (2020)
  • Module 5: Management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents (2022)
  • Global tuberculosis reports (to 2024)

CDC - other

• CDC - Refugee Health guidelines including domestic, overseas and technical instructions for panel physicians (multiple guidelines under each link)
• CDC lead screening
• CDC domestic parasite screening guidelines 
  

^{Immigrant health resources. Updated January 2025. Contact: georgia.paxton@rch.org.au}