What are practice guidelines anyway?
"Practice guidelines are systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances."
Institute of Medicine. (1990). Clinical Practice Guidelines: Directions for a New Program, M.J. Field and K.N. Lohr (eds.) Washington, DC: National Academy Press. page 38.
Practice guidelines serve to:
From the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation's Clinical Practice Guidelines.
Find all your federally approved HIV/AIDS medical practice guidelines here!
Provides timely, in-depth information about PM&R practice guidelines. Also gives good, easy-to-understand definition of what "practice guidelines" means.
Three different types of clinical recommendations: Clinical Practice Guidelines, Clinical Guidance Statements, and Best Practice Advice.
Fight diabetes with the latest ADA clinical practice recommendations! (Regularly reviewed & updated.)
Scroll down to search AHA practice guidelines by topic or publication date. Also, a handy mobile app for practice guidelines on the go! And info on policies & development of practice guidelines for the seriously erudite.
Provided by your friendly Health Professions & Social Work Librarian.
From our northern neighbor comes a handy database of Canadian practice guidelines. Maintained by the Canadian Medical Association it contains 1,200 guidelines developed or endorsed by authoritative medical & health organizations in Canada.
A repository of clinical practice guidelines created by various government agencies, non-profit groups, and professional organizations. This is a U.S. initiative to aggregate evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, courtesy of your tax dollars!
Find practice guidelines for sickle cell, asthma, high blood pressure, von Willegbrande disease, & cardiovascular health and risk reduction in youth.
"The NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology™ – the recognized standard for clinical policy in oncology – are the most comprehensive and most frequently updated clinical practice guidelines available in any area of medicine. Covering 97 percent of all patients with cancer and updated on a continual basis, the NCCN Guidelines are developed through an explicit review of the evidence integrated with expert medical judgment by multidisciplinary panels from NCCN Member Institutions. Treatment recommendations are specific and are implemented through performance measurement. NCCN Guidelines Panels address cancer detection, prevention and risk reduction, workup and diagnosis, treatment and supportive care."
Practice guidelines for antimicrobial use, infections by organ system & organism, and "other guidelines" (fever, infection prevention, immunizations, catheter-related infections, etc.). Also, downloadable guidelines for mobile devices, a discussion forum for practice guidelines, and info on guideline methodology--for those wishing to delve deeper!
See what the Brits are up to! Called "Guidance Lists," this site boasts over 1,110 practice guidelines for medical care in the United Kingdom.