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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