Practice Guidelines
- Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality EPC Evidence Reports
http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/epcindex.htm
- "The [Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPC)] develop evidence reports and technology assessments based on rigorous, comprehensive syntheses and analyses of the scientific literature on topics relevant to clinical, social science/behavioral, economic, and other health care organization and delivery issues. EPC reports and assessments emphasize explicit and detailed documentation of methods, rationale, and assumptions. These scientific syntheses may include meta-analyses and cost analyses. All EPCs collaborate with other medical and research organizations so that a broad range of experts is included in the development process."
- American Academy
of Pediatrics
http://www.aap.org/policy/paramtoc.html
- Offers American Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines for a variety of
childhood conditions, as well as a number of guidelines issued by others
that are endorsed by AAP.
- American College
of Cardiology
http://www.acc.org/qualityandscience/clinical/topic/topic.htm
- Deals with heart health. An “A to Z” health topic search feature
allows users to home in on a specific clinical area. The site also
offers downloadable pocket guidelines in PDF format for a variety of
cardiology areas, as well as Palm Pocket downloads of selected guidelines.
- American
College of Physicians and the American Society of Internal Medicine
http://www.acponline.org/clinical/guidelines/index.html
- ACP-ASIM Clinical Practice Guidelines cover many areas on internal
medicine, such as screening for cancer or other major diseases; diagnosis;
treatment; and medical technology.
- American
College of Radiology
http://www.acr.org/s_acr/bin.asp?TrackID=&SID=1&DID=14800&CID=1848&VID=2&DOC=File.PDF
- Issues “standards” developed through an expert review and consensus
process to define principles of practice that should generally produce
high-quality radiological care.
- Cancer Care
Ontario Practice Guidelines Initiative
http://www.cancercare.on.ca/index_practiceGuidelinesandEvidencesummaries.htm
- An inventory of international clinical guidelines for cancer care.
Each guideline is categorized according to the main method used for
generating recommendations. The extent to which each had been generated
using an evidence-based process is indicated with a categorization
scheme developed by CCOPGI.
- National Guideline Clearinghouse
http://www.guidelines.gov/
- NGC is maintained by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services,
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, with the American Medical
Association, and the American Association of Health Plans.
- Nursing Best Practice Guidelines of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
http://www.rnao.org/Page.asp?PageID=1212&SiteNodeID=155&BL_ExpandID=
- "The purpose of the Best Practice Guideline program is to support Ontario Nurses
by providing them with Best Practice Guidelines for client care." The association provides free online access to their guidelines.
- Primary
Care Clinical Practice Guidelines
http://medicine.ucsf.edu/resources/guidelines/
- "Practice Guidelines are intended to assist physicians and other
health care providers in clinical decision-making by describing a range
of generally acceptable approaches for the diagnosis, management, or
prevention of specific diseases or conditions."
- U.S. Preventive
Services Task Force
http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/uspstfix.htm
- This task force is “an independent panel of experts in primary care
and prevention that systematically reviews the evidence of effectiveness
and develops recommendations for “clinical preventive interventions,
screening tests, counseling, immunizations, and chemoprophylactic regimens
for more than 8-0 conditions. It is currently generating a third edition
of its Guide to Preventive Clinical Services; releasing updates and
recommendations on new topics as they are generated.
Many site descriptions are taken from COR Healthcare Resources at http://www.corhealth.com.
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