About guidelines
- Also called clinical practice guidelines or practice guidelines
- Produced by various health-care organizations and professional bodies
- Can have a local, national or international focus
- Not useful for finding the latest innovation, practices or evidence
- Guidelines produced by different organizations may make different recommendations
Where to look
- DynaMed - summaries include a section on guidelines, with links to specific guidelines
- Databases - databases such as MEDLINE and CINAHL allow you to limit your search results by guidelines
- Trip Pro - this clinical search engine allows you to filter your results by guidelines
- Google - useful for finding guidelines published on individual websites
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