What are Clinical Practice Guidelines  (University of Minnesota, US)

How to Use a Clinical Practice Guideline  (Center for Health Evidence, Canada)

What makes a good Clinical Guideline?  (Evidence Based Medicine, UK) (PDF/Adobe Acrobat)

A Guideline Developer's Handbook (SIGN, UK)

AGREE Collaboration - Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation (Developed by a group of researchers from 13 countries, available in 14 languages)

Grading Systems for Guidelines  (New Zealand Guidelines Group)

NGC Guideline Comparison  (National Guideline Clearinghouse, US)

Characteristics of High-Quality Guidelines: Evaluation of 86 Clinical Guidelines Developed in Ten European Countries and Canada  (By Bergers JS, et al. Int J Technol Assess Health Care. 2003 Winter; 19(1): 148-57. Cambridge Journals Online abstract with link to PDF)

The Relation between Systematic Reviews and Practice Guidelines (Annals of Internal Medicine, 1997, McGill access)

Clinical Guidelines - the Hidden Costs  (BMJ 1999, 318: 391-3, McGill access)

  By Specialty

Cancer Care - Cancer Care Ontario Practice Guidelines Initiative (CCOPGI)  

Cancer Pain - Clinical Practice Guideline (AHCPR)

Critical Care - American College of Critical Care Medicine (ACCM)

OB/GYN - Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada (SOGC)

Pediatrics - Royal Children's Hospital, Australia 

Psychiatry - American Psychiatry Association Practice Guidelines (APA) 

Stroke - Brain Attack Coalition 

Women's Health - Canadian Women's Health Network Database (CWHN) 

Joanna Briggs Institute - Best Practice 

MAJ - Clinical Guidelines Published by Medical Journal of Australia 

New Zealand Guidelines Group - Guidelines and Other Major Publications 

Royal Children's Hospital Clinical Practice Guidelines 

Western Australia Centre for Evidence Based Nursing and Midwifery

Alberta Medical Association

BC Council

CANOSH - Canada's National Occupational Health and Safety Website: Good Practice
Include Links to guidelines, codes of practice, procedures manuals, regulations, and other documents on national, federal, and provincial/ territorial levels

CMA Infobase - Online Database of Clinical Practice Guidelines

GAC - Recommended Clinical Practice Guidelines 
Ontatro Medial Association & Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Health Canada - Clinical Practice Guidelines for Nurses in Primary Care 

OPOT - Ontario Program for Optimal Therapeutics

RNAO - Best Practice Guidelines, Registered Nurses Association of Ontario

CLIP - eGuidelines, Online Clinical Improvement projects

NeLH - Guideline Finder (National Electronic Library of Health)

NICE - Clinical Guidelines (National institute for Clinical Excellence) 

NHS - National Prescribing Centre, Non-Medical Prescribing 

NMAP - Internet Resources in Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions

SIGN - Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network

ACP - Current Guidelines

InfoPOEMs - Practice Guidelines (McGill Access)

MDConsult - Practice Guidelines 
Can be sorted by authorizing organizations, specialties, or topics.  Registration required, yet free for McGill users. 

NGC - National Guideline Clearinghouse, AHRQ 
Searchable database.

TRIP - Translating Research Into Practice  
After conducting a search, select "Guidelines" on the right side of the screen

UCSF - Primary Care Clinical Guidelines  

  International

G-I-N The Guidelines International Network  

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