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  
  
• Refugee policy and timeline
• SRSS - summary for clinicians
• Syrian refugees - key issues
• Ukrainian refugees - key issues
• Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility - Mobility in the time of Covid-19  - including 14 principles of protection.
  

Clinical guidelines - external

General refugee guidelines

• ASID-RHEANA refugee guidelines (2016)  
  
  • Quick guide to screening tests in children (2022, based on 2016 ASID guidelines - updated for Afghan and Ukrainian arrivals)
  • Quick guide to screening tests in adults (2022, based on 2016 ASID guidelines - updated for Afghan and Ukrainian arrivals)
• Australian Refugee Health Practice Guide (2018, primary care guidelines based on ASID guidelines)
  
• Department of Home Affairs - Panel member instructions - July 2021  (offshore medical examinations)
  
• Canadian guidelines for immigrant health also see relevant Cochrane site
• CDC domestic health assessment for refugees
• Minnesota refugee health provider guide (2013)
  
• Refugee health technical assistance center (various American guidelines)
• Victorian Refugee Health Network - clinical quicklinks

Tuberculosis

• Victorian Tuberculosis Guidelines (2015), Victorian Child and Adolescent Tuberculosis screening (2021), Victorian TB Program information , Victoria DH - Tuberculosis.
• National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee (NTAC), including policy statements,
  
  • 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)
  • NTAC: Management of tuberculosis risk in healthcare workers (2017)
  • NTAC: Tuberculosis notifications in Australia (latest 2015-18 as of Nov 2022)
• CDC tuberculosis (various)
• NICE tuberculosis (2016, updated 2019)
• WHO
  
  • Tuberculosis - includes consolidated guidelines:
    • Module 1: Prevention: Tuberculosis preventive treatment (2020)
    • Module 5: Management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents (2022)
  • Global tuberculosis report (2021)
• WHO Guidelines on tuberculosis infection prevention and control, 2019 update

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - other

• CDC - Refugee Health guidelines including domestic and overseas and technical instructions for panel physicians (multiple guidelines under each link)
• CDC lead poisoning refugees (current as of 2020))
• CDC domestic parasite screening guidelines