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Clinical Medicine: Evidence Based Practice

EBP Resources

Point of care clinical decision-making tools are designed for rapid answers to clinical questions at the point of patient care.  These tools feature syntheses of the current evidence for diagnosis, clinical tests, interventions and more.

BestBets. ...critically appraised topics "designed specifically for Emergency Medicine."

Canadian Guidelines

CPG Infobase was a database of Canadian practice guidelines curated by the CMA.  It has been discontinued, but the CMA has put together a list of agencies and societies that produce Canadian guidelines.

Canadian Diabetes Association: Clinical Practice Guidelines

DynaMed entries for specific conditions contain a section called "guidelines and resources" which often list Canadian guidelines.

SOGC (Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada) Clinical Practice Guidelines --  These are no longer available free on the Society website, but are part of our journal subscription.  Go to Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada,  click "online version", click the "go" button under Clinical Key on the following page, and then copy the title of the guideline into the search box just under the journal title to "search this journal".  I would advise against using guideline numbers because these don't seem to be entered consistently.  

 

General Guideline Databases

 ECRI Guidelines Trust. Now available (as of January 2024), after a long absence -- no longer requires users to set up an account.  This is meant to be a replacement for the National Guideline Clearinghouse, whose funding ended in 2018.  

NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence)


 

Topic- or Specialty-Specific Guideline Databases

American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines

Cancer Guidelines Database -- Canadian and international cancer guidelines

Canadian Diabetes Association: Clinical Practice Guidelines

Pediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines and Policies (2023 edition) from the American Academy of Pediatrics

SOGC (Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada) Clinical Practice Guidelines --  These are no longer available free on the Society website, but are part of our journal subscription.  Go to Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada,  click "online version", click the "go" button under Clinical Key on the following page, and then copy the title of the guideline into the search box just under the journal title to "search this journal".  I would advise against using guideline numbers because these don't seem to be entered consistently.  

New and Updated Cochrane Reviews

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