LibGuides: PHM 554: Clinical Practice Guidelines

What Are Clinical Practice Guidelines?

“Clinical practice guidelines are systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances.” (Institute of Medicine)

Why are they important?

Created by an interdisciplinary panel of experts from professional associations, clinical practice guidelines provide evidence-based information on how to deliver healthcare for certain diseases and conditions.
Following clinical practice guidelines may protect you against malpractice, as it demonstrates that you followed the standard of care.

Clinical Practice Guidelines: Resources

Clinical practice guidelines are usually published in institutional repositories or as journal articles and can be located through different resources.

IDSA Guidelines
IDSA Clinical Practice Guidelines are developed by a panel of experts who perform a systematic review of the available evidence and use the GRADE process to develop evidence-based recommendations to assist practitioners and patients in making decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances.
ECRI Guidelines Trust
"ECRI Guidelines Trust is a publicly available web-based repository of objective, evidence-based clinical practice guideline content." - ECRI Institute

Lexidrug This link opens in a new window
You can find clinical practice guidelines within a drug monograph.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Contains over 36 million citations for biomedical articles. Includes links to full-text articles.

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PHM 554: Clinical Practice Guidelines