Clinical practice guidelines are the means of applying evidence-based research findings to the work of medical practitioners.
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- Recommended Clinical Practice Guidelines Presented by the Ontario Guidelines Advisory Committee, with details of the recommendation process and a list of publications.
- Guidelines International Network Association of organisations and individuals involved in the systematic development and application of clinical practice guidelines. Features a searchable list of members.
- National Guideline Clearinghouse The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in the United States presents a searchable database of clinical practice guidelines, abstracts, and an annotated bibliography.
- Guideline Central Provides medical guidelines services, with a large collection of categorized medical guidelines (free) along with evidence-based quick-reference guideline tools (for fee).
- The SAGE Project Provides supporting services and tools for the encoding and dissemination of electronic clinical practice guidelines, including a software guidelines development workbench and a guidelines deployment tool.
- NHMRC Clinical Practice Guidelines Portal Single entry point for all Australian clinical practice guidelines, available for download as PDFs, from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).
- U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Provides systematic reviews of evidence of effectiveness, and guidelines for clinical preventive services. Developed under the auspices of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
- CMA Infobase Searchable database of Canadian clinical practice guidelines, from the Canadian Medical Association.
- WHO Healthcare Guidelines Evidence-based guidelines in global healthcare, from the World Health Organization.
- Ontario Health Technology Assessment Series (OHTAS) Evidence-based analyses and guidelines produced by Health Quality Ontario (HQO), with free full text available (as PDFs).
- Treatment Guideline Database Online global database of all the current medical guidelines for treatment and management of various disease conditions, searchable by disease and by country.
- NICE Clinical Guidelines Evidence-based guidelines across all domains of healthcare in the UK. From the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the authoritative advisory body to the NHS.
- NCCIH Clinical Practice Guidelines Topic-categorized guidelines on specific diagnostic and treatment modalities in the diagnosis and management of patients, aggregated (but not develloped) by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH).
- Royal College of Physicians Guidelines Current evidence of best practice and recommendations for the evidence-based treatment and management of various diseases and conditions.
- Clinical Practice Guidelines Resource links to major national and international clinical guidelines organizations, from OpenClinical.
- AAFP Clinical Recommendations A-Z Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines relevant to family medicine, from the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).
- The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) Statement: Guidelines for reporting observational studies The STROBE Initiative recommendations on what should be included in an accurate and complete report of an observational study, covering the three main study designs: cohort, case–control, and cross-sectional studies. [2014]
- Guide to Clinical Practice Guidelines: The Current State of Play A guide describing the standards, methods and systems reported in the current clinical practice guidelines methodology and implementation literature. [2016]