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Practice Guidelines

Agency for Health Research Quality (AHRQ) Clinical Practice Guidelines
A good source for clinical practice guidelines from AHRQ and links to other guideline sites such as the U.S. Public Health Service.

CDC Recommends: Prevention Guidelines System
This system contains up-to-date and archived guidelines and recommendations approved by the CDC for the prevention and control of disease, injuries, and disabilities.

Clinical Practice Guidelines Infobase
Guidelines in this collection were produced or endorsed in Canada by a national, provincial, or territorial medical/health organization, professional society, government agency or expert panel. The database is searchable by category, title, or developer. Full text is available.

Health Services/Technology Assessment Text
HSTAT includes searchable full text of the Agency for Health Care Practice and Research (AHCPR) clinical guidelines and evidence reports, National Institues of Health Consensus Development Statements, and U.S. Guide to Clinical Preventive Services. Also inlcuded are quick-reference guides for clinicians, and consumer brochures sponsored by various governmental agencies.

National Guideline Clearinghouse
This database is intended to make evidence-based clinical guidelines and related abstract, summary, and comparison materials widely available to health care professionals. NGC is operated by the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR), in partnership with the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Association of Health Plans (AAHP).

NIH Consensus Development Program

MDConsult
From Current Practice, click on 'Practice Guidelines' Current policies and practices of medical societies and government agencies