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Clinical practice guidelines are the means of applying evidence-based research findings to the work of medical practitioners.

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• AAFP Clinical Recommendations A-Z

  http://www.aafp.org/patient-care/clinical-recommendations/a-z.html
  Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines relevant to family medicine, from the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).

• Clinical Practice Guidelines

  http://www.openclinical.org/guidelines.html
  Resource links to major national and international clinical guidelines organizations, from OpenClinical.

• CMA Infobase

  http://www.cma.ca/clinicalresources/practiceguidelines
  Searchable database of Canadian clinical practice guidelines, from the Canadian Medical Association.

• Guide to Clinical Practice Guidelines: The Current State of Play

  http://intqhc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/01/20/intqhc.mzv115.long
  A guide describing the standards, methods and systems reported in the current clinical practice guidelines methodology and implementation literature. [2016]

• Guideline Central

  http://www.guidelinecentral.com/
  Provides medical guidelines services, with a large collection of categorized medical guidelines (free) along with evidence-based quick-reference guideline tools (for fee).

• Guidelines International Network

  http://www.g-i-n.net/
  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

  http://www.guideline.gov/
  The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in the United States presents a searchable database of clinical practice guidelines, abstracts, and an annotated bibliography.

• NCCIH Clinical Practice Guidelines

  https://nccih.nih.gov/health/providers/clinicalpractice.htm
  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).

• NHMRC Clinical Practice Guidelines Portal

  https://www.clinicalguidelines.gov.au/
  Single entry point for all Australian clinical practice guidelines, available for download as PDFs, from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).

• NICE Clinical Guidelines

  http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/published?type=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.

• Ontario Health Technology Assessment Series (OHTAS)

  http://www.hqontario.ca/evidence/publications-and-ohtac-recommendations/ontario-health-technology-assessment-series
  Evidence-based analyses and guidelines produced by Health Quality Ontario (HQO), with free full text available (as PDFs).

• Recommended Clinical Practice Guidelines

  http://www.gacguidelines.ca/
  Presented by the Ontario Guidelines Advisory Committee, with details of the recommendation process and a list of publications.

• Royal College of Physicians Guidelines

  https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/guidelines
  Current evidence of best practice and recommendations for the evidence-based treatment and management of various diseases and conditions.

• The SAGE Project

  http://sage.wherever.org/
  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.

• The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) Statement: Guidelines for reporting observational studies

  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S174391911400212X
  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]

• Treatment Guideline Database

  http://treatmentguideline.com/
  Online global database of all the current medical guidelines for treatment and management of various disease conditions, searchable by disease and by country.

• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

  http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/
  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).

• WHO Healthcare Guidelines

  http://www.who.int/publications/guidelines/en
  Evidence-based guidelines in global healthcare, from the World Health Organization.

 

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