Evidence Based Practice & Healthcare Guidelines: Guidelines and Standards

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The ECRI Guidelines Trust is an interactive guideline portal, puts current, evidence-based clinical practice guideline summaries directly into the hands of clinicians, researchers, medical librarians, and patients. This publicly available guideline repository was created by the same team that developed and maintained the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) for more than 20 years.

Free access to thousands of current clinical practice and guidelines summaries

clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. Includes Guidelines and Standards.

Utilize the "Research Reporting Guidelines" search terms to target Guidelines published in PubMed.

Open resource of Best Practice Guidelines covering four themes: foundational, clinical, system and healthy work environment and population and public health.

From the Canadian Medical Association: "With more than 1,700 evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) and 900 Choosing Wisely Canada recommendations, you can ensure you have the most current, evidence-based guidance. CPGs are developed or endorsed by authoritative medical or health organizations in Canada and curated by CMA Joule."

EvidenceAlerts is a service made available by McMaster University that incorporates the McMaster PLUS email alerting system and searchable database of best evidence from the medical literature, in collaboration with EBSCOHealth and DynamedPlus.
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Updated list of National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) websites that provide information about clinical studies, drug development, and other health care issues.

The Sigma Repository is the only repository solely dedicated to sharing work created by nurses around the world. Nurses at any career stage (student to retired) can submit their materials to the repository to share their knowledge in a global forum.