Clinical Practice Guidelines

Clinical Practice Guidelines:
Subject	Description
Alberta TOPS program	The TOP program supports physician practices, and the teams they work with, by fostering the use of evidence-based best practices and quality initiatives in medical care in Alberta. The program offers a variety of tools and services to help physicians and their colleagues meet the challenge of keeping practices current in an environment of continually emerging evidence. The program is overseen by the AMA and Alberta Health and Wellness.
Physician Information Calgary Health Region CPGs	CPG and Best Practice Inventory for CHR, supported by Clinical Decision Support, Dept of Medicine
Canada Medical Association Clinical Practice Guidelines resource	These guidelines are produced or endorsed in Canada by a national, provincial/territorial or regional medical or health organization, professional society, government agency or expert panel.
Ontario Medical Association endorsed guidelines: Guidelines Advisory Committee (GAC)	A listing of guidelines for over 60 various medical states. The Guidelines Advisory Committee (GAC) is an independent partnership of the Ontario Medical Association and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (MOHLTC).
British Medical Journal Clinical Evidence	Clinical evidence is a six monthly, updated collection of evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions, published by the BMJ Publishing Group. BMJ Clinical Evidence is one of the world's most authoritive medical resources for informing treatment decisions and improving patient care.
National Guideline Clearinghouse	An American public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines
Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement	Provides knowledge products on clinical practice guidelines, technology assessment reports, impact studies, health protocols, patient information, and other resources.
The AGREE instrument	A ‘gold standard’ tool for assessing practice guidelines research and evaluation
Registered Nurses of Ontario Clinical practice Guidelines	Registered Nurses Association of Ontario practice guidelines, tools and resources.
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network	Provides links to evidence based guidelines and evidence based medicine practice supported by NHS Scotland
Evaluating and adapting clinical practice guidelines for local use by health care organizations	Presents a framework addressing the major issues related to guidelines adaptation and breaks them down into manageable steps. From JOGNN, 31, 599-611.
HSTAT (Health Services Technology Text) CPGs	Health Services Technology Text is a resource of full-text documents that provide health information and supports HCPs, health service researchers, policy makers, payers, consumers and the IT professionals who serve these groups.
UK clinical practice guidelines	A compressive collection of UK clinical guidelines and related information for healthcare professionals and patients

Medical Literature and Evidence Based Practice Support:
Subject	Description
How to conduct an evidence based medicine literature search - Duke University Medical Center Library and Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.	A basic introduction tutorial to the principles of Evidence-Based Medicine. The objectives of the tutorial cover: Definition of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) Identify the parts of a well-built clinical question Identify EBM searching strategies that could improve MEDLINE retrieval Identify key issues that help determine the validity of the results of a study
Tips for Learners of Evidence-Based Medicine: Measures of Precision Confidence Interval	Explains the use of confidence intervals in testing hypotheses. From the Canadian Medical Association Journal
University of Calgary Health Sciences Library	Library Link for CHR to U of C Medical Library
Duke University Medical Center Library and Health Sciences Library, UNC-Chapel Hill	This website reviews how to conduct a basic MEDLINE search in Ovid
The Cochrane Collaboration	The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, including The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
National Library of Medicine	This is a very simple Web-based learning program that will show you how to search PubMed®, the National Library of Medicine's (NLM®) journal literature search system.
Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, University of Toronto	The goal of this website is to help develop, disseminate and evaluate resources that can be used to practice and teach EBM for undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education for health care professionals from a variety of clinical disciplines
EBM Sources Dictionary of Evidence Based Information Websites, Laval University Department of Family Medicine	Excellent resource providing a comprehensive listing of evidence based websites that are evaluated using a validated assessment tool developed by Laval University
Levels of Evidence and Grades of Recommendation - Center for Evidence Based Medicie	Provides the Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine Levels of Evidence levels and grades on the validity of evidence about prevention, diagnosis, prognosis, therapy, and harm. Referenced by McGill University Health Center and InfoPOEMs.
Types of Research Studies: Duke University Medical Center Library and Health Sciences Library, UNC Chapel Hill	Discusses the types of research studies; Meta-analysis, Systematic Reviews, Randomized controlled clinical trials, prospective, blind comparison to a gold standard study, Cohort Studies, Case Control Studies, and Case reports and presents the ‘evidence pyramid’
MLANET - Tutorial and Reference Site for Evidence Based Healthcare	Medical Libraries Association resource page: provides tutorial and resource site for evidence based health care. Provides info on: search tutorials/how to sites; search filters; practice guidelines reviews; organizations; and peer reviewed journal links
American Academy of Physicians - Algorithms: Clinical Recommendations	A listing of algorithms published in American Family Physicians. They represent the official clinical policy or position of the AAFP.
University of California Dept of Medicine - Resources for Reading Medical Literature	Provides articles from JAMA and the Lancet on how to read, interpret, and apply medical literature.

Organization links:
Agencies	Description
Agency for Health Research and Quality	Provides resources on EBM and research resources
Canadian Council on Health Services Accreditation	Information on accreditations and quality improvement
Canadian Institute of Health Agency for Healthcare Policy & Research Information	Provides data and reports inform health policies, support the effective delivery of health services and raise awareness among Canadians of the factors that contribute to good health.
Alberta Medical Association	Clinical resources provided by the AMA, facilitates access to links to: the AMA, CMA and College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta position statements, policies and motions; health-related and member sites; as well as medical journals in other clinical and medical sites.




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