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Compiled by Dr. Edward J Mullen,
Willma & Albert Musher Chair Professor for Life Betterment through
Science & Technology, Columbia University in the City of New York
Clinical Practice Guidelines
Canadian Task Force on Preventive
Health Care
http://www.ctfphc.org/
This website is designed to serve as
a practical guide to health care providers, planners and consumers for
determining the inclusion or exclusion, content and frequency of a wide
variety of preventive health interventions, using the evidence-based
recommendations of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC)*.
Their health professional’s resource links provides additional links to
clinical practice guidelines & recommendations, evidence reports and
systematic reviews, and evidence based medicine resources.
Canadian Medical Association
Clinical Practice Guidelines Infobase
http://mdm.ca/cpgsnew/cpgs/index.asp
National Coordinating Centre for
Health Technology Assessment (NCCHTA)
www.ncchta.org
(follow links to "Publications")
National Electronic Library for
Health, National Health Service, United Kingdom
http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/
The role of the NeLH is to provide
health care professionals and the public (through NHS Direct Online and
the New Library Network) with knowledge and know-how to support health
care related decisions. This site provides extensive access and links to
practice and knowledge information including practice guidelines and
evidence-based policy and practice materials.
National Guideline Clearinghouse™
(NGC)
http://www.guideline.gov/
The National Guideline Clearinghouse™
(NGC) is a comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice
guidelines and related documents produced by the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) (formerly 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).
The NGC mission is to provide physicians, nurses, and other health
professionals, health care providers, health plans, integrated delivery
systems, purchasers and others an accessible mechanism for obtaining
objective, detailed information on clinical practice guidelines and to
further their dissemination, implementation and use. Key components of
NGC include: Structured abstracts (summaries) about the guideline and
its development; A utility for comparing attributes of two or more
guidelines in a side-by-side comparison; Syntheses of guidelines
covering similar topics, highlighting areas of similarity and
difference; Links to full-text guidelines, where available, and/or
ordering information for print copies; An electronic forum, NGC-L for
exchanging information on clinical practice guidelines, their
development, implementation and use; Annotated bibliographies on
guideline development methodology, implementation, and use.
National Health and Medical
Research Council, Government of Australia
http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/publishing.nsf/Content/Home
Since 1937 the Council has played a
pivotal role in providing independent, strong advice on all aspects of
health and health care delivery in Australia. This is done by managing
the complementary functions of funding health and medical research,
providing ethical guidance on health and medical research issues, and
providing health advice. The latter is done by publishing guidelines,
information papers and pamphlets on a range of health issues throughout
the health and general communities, drawing on the best of expert advice
and ensuring that the published advice is both current and relevant for
the Australian community. It is directed by Professor Alan Pettigrew.
New Zealand Guidelines Group
http://www.nzgg.org.nz/
The New Zealand Guidelines Group
leads a movement towards the delivery of high quality health and
disability services throughout New Zealand through a change in culture
based on evidence and effectiveness. The NZGG is an independent,
not-for-profit organisation set up to promote effective delivery of
health and disability services, based on evidence.
New Zealand Health Technology Assessment Clearinghouse for Health
Outcomes and Health Technology Assessment (NZHTA)
http://nzhta.chmeds.ac.nz/
Scottish Intercollegiate
Guidelines Network (SIGN)
www.sign.ac.uk/guidelines/index.html
The Scottish Intercollegiate
Guidelines Network (SIGN) was formed in 1993. Our objective is to
improve the quality of health care for patients in Scotland by reducing
variation in practice and outcome, through the development and
dissemination of national clinical guidelines containing recommendations
for effective practice based on current evidence.
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
www.ahrq.gov/clinic/uspstfix.htm
Critically Appraised Research
Articles & Dissemination Groups
Bandolier
http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/aboutus.html
Bandolier is a print and Internet
journal about health care, using evidence-based medicine techniques to
provide advice about particular treatments or diseases for healthcare
professionals and consumers. The content is 'tertiary' publishing,
distilling the information from (secondary) reviews of (primary) trials
and making it comprehensible. The impetus behind Bandolier was to find
information about evidence of effectiveness (or lack of it), and to put
it forward as simple "bullet-points" of those things that worked and
those things that didn't. The problem is that a simple bullet point is
insufficient to get across much in the way of information, so we decided
on an eight-page A4 format. Information was to come from systematic
reviews of the literature, from Effectiveness Bulletins from York, from
randomised controlled trials and from high quality case-control, cohort
or observational studies. first issue of Bandolier was published in
February 1994, and has been monthly since then. Every issue is
available, full text, and free of charge. Each month PubMed and the
Cochrane Library are searched for systematic reviews and meta-analyses
published in the recent past. Those that look remotely interesting are
read, and where they are both interesting and make sense, they appear in
Bandolier.
Clinical Efficacy Assessment
Project of the American College of Physicians-American Society of
Internal Medicine
http://www.acponline.org/sci-policy/guidelines/ceap.htm
CEAP is administered by the Clinical
Efficacy Assessment Subcommittee (CEAS) and by the staff of the
Scientific Policy Department of the ACP-ASIM. Choosing a topic for a
clinical practice guideline is the first step in the CEAP process.
Evidence reports commissioned by the Agency for Health Care Policy and
Research (AHCPR) and generated by Evidence-based Practice Centers are
the basis of our guidelines. These comprehensive evidence reports are
systematic literature reviews and are available to the public. The goal
is to provide clinicians with a clinical practice guideline based on the
best evidence available; to make recommendations based on that evidence;
to inform clinicians of when there is no evidence; and finally, to help
them deliver the best health care possible. Their journal Effective
Clinical Practice is at:
http://www.acponline.org/journals/ecp/index.html .
Evidence-based Healthcare
http://www.harcourt-international.com/journals/ebhc/
Evidence-based Healthcare provides
health managers and policy makers with the best evidence available about
the financing, organization and management of healthcare. For each issue
of the Journal key articles are selected from over 70 of the most
authoritative and respected journals in the field and reviewed in the
form of a structured abstract and expert commentary. The concise and
easy to read format presents the most essential, relevant and practical
information, in a form easy to assimilate and understand. Evidence-based
Healthcare covers the following types of studies: evaluations of
financing and organisation of healthcare; evidence-based patient and
public choice; health economics; health technology assessment; managing
healthcare; promotion of evidence-based clinical practice; public health
policy; purchasing.
Netting The Evidence
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/netting/
A ScHARR Introduction to Evidence
Based Practice on the Internet As described on the web site: “Netting
the Evidence is intended to facilitate evidence-based healthcare by
providing support and access to helpful organisations and useful
learning resources, such as an evidence-based virtual library, software
and journals.”
Promising Practices Network (PPN)
http://www.promisingpractices.net/benchmark.asp?benchmarkid=8
The Promising Practices Network (PPN)
web site highlights programs and practices that credible research
indicates are effective in improving outcomes for children, youth, and
families. The information offered is organized around three major areas:
Proven and Promising Programs, Research in Brief, and Strengthening
Service Delivery.
Research in Practice (RIP)
http://www.rip.org.uk/
This research in practice website has
five aims: to bring busy child care practitioners, managers and planners
information about and access to good sources of research evidence; to
support them in making judgements about the best use of that research;
to assist their efforts to become more evidence based in their services
for children and families; to provide information about research in
practice, its aspirations, working methods and work in progress; to
enable members of the wider public, including children and families, to
have access to a range of good evidence and sources of more information.
RIP a partnership between The Dartington Hall Trust, The Association of
Directors of Social Services, The University of Sheffield with over 60
participating English local authorities and voluntary child care
organizations.
Social Care Institute for
Excellence (SCIE)
http://www.scie.org.uk/scieswork/scieswork.htm
SCIE is an independent organisation
created in response to the British government drive to improve quality
in social care services across England and Wales. Knowledge about what
works in social care does exist, but it is often localised, patchy and
seldom widely shared. A large part of SCIE's job is to gather and
interpret this knowledge, and make it readily accessible to anyone who
wants to use it, so that knowledge contributes to positive practice and
policy change.
ELSC is an electronic library for
social care maintained by SCIE. This site enables social care
practitioners and managers to: have access to the best available
research; learn the skills needed to understand and critically appraise
research; have the tools to ensure that practice is based on solid
evidence about what works.http://www.elsc.org.uk/
Meta-Search Engines
TRIP (Turning Research Into
Practice)
www.tripdatabase.com
The TRIP Database searches over 75
sites of high-quality medical information. The TRIP Database gives you
direct, hyperlinked access to the largest collection of 'evidence-based'
material on the web as well as articles from premier on-line journals
such as the BMJ, JAMA, NEJM etc.
*Descriptions of
web sites are either direct quotes or adaptations from those provided on
the respective sites.
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