Guidelines, consensus & standards of care.
Facilitating scientific dialogue on the development, interpretation and implementation of contemporary clinical recommendations.
Purpose
Clinical guidelines from international and national bodies are essential, but they are long, frequently updated and sometimes differ from one another. Clinicians need help interpreting what changes, why, and how to apply it to their own patients.
IMACH focuses on improving awareness of evolving standards of care and encouraging the translation of scientific evidence into everyday practice.
Planned initiatives
Clinical practice recommendations
Practical, concise recommendations on priority topics.
Multidisciplinary consensus
Structured expert discussions where evidence is evolving.
Disease management pathways
Step-by-step care pathways, as shown on each therapy-area page.
Guideline update programmes
Sessions summarising what is new in major guidelines.
Quick-reference tools
Checklists and summaries for clinic use.
Implementation support
Helping clinics put recommendations into practice.
Our consensus approach
Select topic
Priority clinical question chosen with members.
Review evidence
Systematic appraisal of current evidence and guidelines.
Expert discussion
Multidisciplinary panel deliberation with disclosure of interests.
Draft & review
Draft recommendations reviewed by wider faculty.
Publish & educate
Dissemination through publications and Academy programmes.
Candidate topics
- Integrated cardiometabolic risk assessment
- Kidney screening in diabetes and hypertension
- MASLD screening in metabolic clinics
- Postpartum follow-up after GDM
- Obesity assessment in Asian populations
- Lipid management in very-high-risk patients
- Diabetes care in older adults
- Sleep apnoea screening in obesity
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