Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Treatment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Adolescents

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ID23364591
AutoresMark L Wolraich (aSection of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, autor de correspondencia), Joseph F Hagan (bDepartment of Pediatrics, The Robert Larner, MD, College of Medicine, The University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont), Carla Allan (0000-0002-5425-2364, dDivision of Developmental and Behavioral Health, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Mercy Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri), Eugenia Chan (fDivision of Developmental Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts), Dale Davison (hChildren and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Lanham, Maryland), Marian Earls (jCommunity Care of North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina), Marian F Earls (0000-0002-5343-0157, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Steven W Evans (0000-0002-7283-2274, lDepartment of Psychology, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio), Susan K Flinn (nAmerican Academy of Pediatrics, Alexandria, Virginia), Tanya Froehlich (0000-0002-4471-289X, oDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio), Jennifer Frost (0000-0002-9088-5062, qSwope Health Services, Kansas City, Kansas), Joseph R Holbrook (sNational Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia), Christoph U Lehmann (0000-0001-9559-4646, Vanderbilt University), Herschel Robert Lessin (uThe Children’s Medical Group, Poughkeepsie, New York), Kymika Okechukwu (vAmerican Academy of Pediatrics, Itasca, Illinois), K Pierce (0000-0001-7690-1030, Northwestern University), Karen L Pierce (wAmerican Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Washington, District of Columbia), Jonathan D Winner (yAtlanta, Georgia; and), William Zurhellen (zHolderness, New Hampshire)
Año2019
Volumen144
Número4
Fecha de publicación2019-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPEDIATRICS (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0031-4005 • E-ISSN: 1098-4275
EditorialAmerican Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1542/peds.2019-2528
OpenAlexW4213383170
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas105
Referencias citadas133

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common neurobehavioral disorders of childhood and can profoundly affect children’s academic achievement, well-being, and social interactions. The American Academy of Pediatrics first published clinical recommendations for evaluation and diagnosis of pediatric ADHD in 2000; recommendations for treatment followed in 2001. The guidelines were revised in 2011 and published with an accompanying process of care algorithm (PoCA) providing discrete and manageable steps by which clinicians could fulfill the clinical guideline’s recommendations. Since the release of the 2011 guideline, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has been revised to the fifth edition, and new ADHD-related research has been published. These publications do not support dramatic changes to the previous recommendations. Therefore, only incremental updates have been made in this guideline revision, including the addition of a key action statement related to diagnosis and treatment of comorbid conditions in children and adolescents with ADHD. The accompanying process of care algorithm has also been updated to assist in implementing the guideline recommendations. Throughout the process of revising the guideline and algorithm, numerous systemic barriers were identified that restrict and/or hamper pediatric clinicians’ ability to adopt their recommendations. Therefore, the subcommittee created a companion article (available in the Supplemental Information) on systemic barriers to the care of children and adolescents with ADHD, which identifies the major systemic-level barriers and presents recommendations to address those barriers; in this article, we support the recommendations of the clinical practice guideline and accompanying process of care algorithm.

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