About Clinical Practice Guidelines
Clinical Practice Guidelines are statements that include recommendations intended to optimize patient care. These statements are informed by a systematic review of evidence and an assessment of the benefits and costs of alternative care options. Guidelines should be evidence-based, incorporate patient input, as well as explicit criteria to ensure internal validity.
Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Web
The following resources offer Clinical Practice Guidelines for you to search, browse, download, and use:
- ECRI Institute's Guidelines TrustRequires free account registration. ECRI Guidelines Trust is a publicly available online repository of objective, evidence-based clinical practice guideline content. Its purpose is to provide physicians, nurses, other clinical specialties, and members of the healthcare community with up-to-date clinical practices to advance safe and effective patient care. This centralized repository includes evidence-based guidance developed by nationally and internationally recognized medical organizations and medical specialty societies.
- NASN Learning CenterThis repository from the National Association for School Nurses provides guidelines and resources for developing new ones.
Note: You must create an account to read or download guidelines. This is a free process. - Infection Control GuidelinesThese guidelines, developed by the Center for Disease Control (CDC), are fully accessible and can be downloaded via PDF.
- Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) Clinical Practice GuidelinesENA Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) are evidence-based documents that facilitate the application of current evidence into everyday emergency nursing practice. CPGs contain recommendations based on a systematic review and critical analysis of the literature about a clinical question. CPGs are created following the rigorous process described in ENA’s Guidelines for the Development of Clinical Practice Guidelines. The purpose of CPGs is to positively impact patient care in emergency nursing by bridging the gap between practice and currently available evidence.
- Veteran's Health Administration (VHA) GuidelinesVHA, in collaborations with the Department of Defense (DoD) and other leading professional organizations, has been developing clinical practice guidelines since the early 1990s. In 2010 the Institute of Medicine identified VA/DoD as leaders in clinical practice guideline development.
- Registered Nurse's Association of Ontario (RNAO) Best Practice Guidelines ProgramThe Registered Nurse's Association of Ontario (RNAO) provides this list of best practice guidelines, comprehensive documents providing resources necessary for the support of evidence-based nursing practice. Nurses, other health care professionals and administrators who are leading and facilitating practice changeswill find this document valuable for the development of policies, procedures, protocols, educationalprograms, assessment and documentation tools. It is recommended that this guideline be used as a resourcetool. Nurses providing direct client care will benefit from reviewing the recommendations, the evidence in support of the recommendations, and the process that was used to develop the guidelines.
- Clinical Practice Guidelines InfobaseThis database contains approximately 1,200 evidence-based Canadian clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) developed or endorsed by authoritative medical or health organizations in Canada. CPG Infobase is maintained by Joule.
- National comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) GuidelinesNCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®) are posted with the latest update date and version number.
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) Clinical Practice GuidelinesIssued by third-party organizations, and not the NCCIH, these guidelines define the role of specific diagnostic and treatment modalities in the diagnosis and management of patients. The statements contain recommendations that are based on evidence from a rigorous systematic review and synthesis of the published medical literature.These guidelines are not fixed protocols that must be followed, but are intended for health care professionals and providers to consider. While they identify and describe generally recommended courses of intervention, they are not presented as a substitute for the advice of a physician or other knowledgeable health care professional or provider.
- Clinical Practice Guidelines and Evidence-Based Reviews for Neuroscience NursesThe guidelines and reviews put together by the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses (AANN) provide an overview of evidence based practices for nursing management of specific patient populations with neurological injuries. CPGs are available for free to the general public. Please click the "download" button to view the documents.
Clinical Practice Guidelines in the Library
Pediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines and Policies, 15th Edition by
New 15th Edition! Keep up with current practice guidelines and policies from the American Academy of Pediatrics with the latest, most up-to-date edition of this clinical reference classic. This evidence-based decision-making tool for managing common pediatric conditions has been revised and updated for 2014, with the latest clinical practice guidelines for more than 30 conditions, plus every AAP policy statement, clinical report, and technical report through December 2014.Updated and expanded for 2015 including - New pediatric clinical practice guidelines on "The Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Bronchiolitis"- New Periodicity Schedule - Full text of more than 60 new or revised AAP policies - CD-ROM includes the full text of more than 400 AAP clinical practice guidelines, policy statements, clinical reports, and technical reports. - More than 30 clinical practice guidelines including Sleep Apnea guideline, as well as ADHD, bronchiolitis, dysplasia of the hip, gastroenteritis, otitis media, urinary tract infection, and more. - 2015 immunization schedule."
ISBN: 9781581109245Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Endocrine Society's Clinical Guidelines : 2013 Compendium of Clinical Practice Guidelines by
This electronic book is a collection of all guidelines developed by the Endocrine Society as of September 2012. It includes guidelines previously published as well as nine new Clinical Practice Guidelines and three updated ones. Collectively, these documents serve as a valuable resource for reference and referral for anyone involved in the clinical management of endocrine disorders
Call Number: RA399.A1.A15 2013ISBN: 9781936704132Publication Date: 2013-03-01
About Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Evaluation of the Use of GuidelinesThis Research Guide from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) includes a selection of open access materials on evaluation of use of guidelines from a variety of authors, organizations, and settings.
- Reading the Medical LiteratureThis document from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) provides an overview of their guideline development process, including elements of study design that are linked to the strength of the evidence.
- Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust by
Advances in medical, biomedical and health services research have reduced the level of uncertainty in clinical practice. Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) complement this progress by establishing standards of care backed by strong scientific evidence. CPGs are statements that include recommendations intended to optimize patient care. These statements are informed by a systematic review of evidence and an assessment of the benefits and costs of alternative care options. Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust examines the current state of clinical practice guidelines and how they can be improved to enhance healthcare quality and patient outcomes. Clinical practice guidelines now are ubiquitous in our healthcare system. The Guidelines International Network (GIN) database currently lists more than 3,700 guidelines from 39 countries. Developing guidelines presents a number of challenges including lack of transparent methodological practices, difficulty reconciling conflicting guidelines, and conflicts of interest. Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust explores questions surrounding the quality of CPG development processes and the establishment of standards. It proposes eight standards for developing trustworthy clinical practice guidelines emphasizing transparency; management of conflict of interest ; systematic review--guideline development intersection; establishing evidence foundations for and rating strength of guideline recommendations; articulation of recommendations; external review; and updating. Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust shows how clinical practice guidelines can enhance clinician and patient decision-making by translating complex scientific research findings into recommendations for clinical practice that are relevant to the individual patient encounter, instead of implementing a one size fits all approach to patient care. This book contains information directly related to the work of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), as well as various Congressional staff and policymakers. It is a vital resource for medical specialty societies, disease advocacy groups, health professionals, private and international organizations that develop or use clinical practice guidelines, consumers, clinicians, and payers.
Publication Date: 21 March 2011
Finding What Works in Health Care by
Healthcare decision makers in search of reliable information that compares health interventions increasingly turn to systematic reviews for the best summary of the evidence. Systematic reviews identify, select, assess, and synthesize the findings of similar but separate studies, and can help clarify what is known and not known about the potential benefits and harms of drugs, devices, and other healthcare services. Systematic reviews can be helpful for clinicians who want to integrate research findings into their daily practices, for patients to make well-informed choices about their own care, for professional medical societies and other organizations that develop clinical practice guidelines. Too often systematic reviews are of uncertain or poor quality. There are no universally accepted standards for developing systematic reviews leading to variability in how conflicts of interest and biases are handled, how evidence is appraised, and the overall scientific rigor of the process. In Finding What Works in Health Care the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommends 21 standards for developing high-quality systematic reviews of comparative effectiveness research. The standards address the entire systematic review process from the initial steps of formulating the topic and building the review team to producing a detailed final report that synthesizes what the evidence shows and where knowledge gaps remain. Finding What Works in Health Care also proposes a framework for improving the quality of the science underpinning systematic reviews. This book will serve as a vital resource for both sponsors and producers of systematic reviews of comparative effectiveness research.
ISBN: 9780309164252Publication Date: 2011-07-20
