Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.
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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Acute diarrhea in children" and "Society guideline links: Clostridioides difficile infection".)
International
●World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO): Global guidelines on acute diarrhea in adults and children – A global perspective (2012)
●World Health Organization (WHO) and Global Task Force on Cholera Control (GTFCC): Acute diarrhoeal disease in complex emergencies – Critical steps (2010)
●WHO and GTFCC: First steps for managing an outbreak of acute diarrhoea (2010)
●WHO: Guidelines for the control of shigellosis, including epidemics due to Shigella dysenteriae type 1 (2005)
●WHO: The treatment of diarrhoea – A manual for physicians and other senior health workers, 4th revision (2005)
Canada
●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't collect stool that is not diarrhea for Clostridium difficile infection testing or test of cure (2017)
●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't prescribe prophylactic antibiotics to prevent travellers' diarrhea (2017)
United States
●American Society of Transplantation (AST): Guidelines on intestinal parasites including Cryptosporidium, Cyclospora, Giardia, & microsporidia, Entamoeba histolytica, Strongyloides, schistosomiasis, & echinococcus (2019)
●Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Yellow Book 2020 – Health Information for International Travel (published 2019)
•Campylobacteriosis
•Cholera
•Cryptosporidiosis
•Cyclosporiasis
•Escherichia coli, diarrheagenic
•Giardiasis
•Norovirus
•Salmonellosis (nontyphoidal)
•Shigellosis
•Travelers' diarrhea
•Typhoid and paratyphoid fever
•Yersiniosis
●Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): Clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of infectious diarrhea (2017)
●American College of Gastroenterology (ACG): Clinical guideline ─ Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of acute diarrheal infections in adults (2016)
●Choosing Wisely: Avoid testing for a Clostridium difficile infection in the absence of diarrhea (2015)
●CDC: Guideline for the prevention and control of norovirus gastroenteritis outbreaks in healthcare settings (2011)
●CDC: Updated norovirus outbreak management and disease prevention guidelines (2011)
●Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC): Guideline for the prevention and control of norovirus gastroenteritis outbreaks in healthcare settings (2011)
●American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE): Guideline on the role of endoscopy in the management of patients with diarrhea (2010)
United Kingdom
●Norovirus Working Party: Guidelines for the management of norovirus outbreaks in acute and community health and social care settings (2012)
Australia-New Zealand
●Choosing Wisely Australia: Do not investigate or treat for faecal pathogens in the absence of diarrhoea or other gastro-intestinal symptoms
