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Guidelines & Reviews

This guide is to help clinicians and health care professionals locate timely and relevant clinical guidelines that synthesize the best evidence on particular medical topics.

Inside Health - Clinical Practice Manual

Find practice and structure standards on Inside Health through Nursing. Log in to Elsevier Care Planning documents.  For NYU Langone Health employees - Kerberos ID and password required.

Professional Organizations

Many professional organizations publish practice guidelines. This MedlinePlus link is a starting point.

For more, PubsHub is a database containing details on peer-reviewed medical journal, professional conferences and associated professional organizations. Choose the associations link to find organizations supporting written practice guidelines.

ECRI Guidelines Trust

ECRI Guidelines Trust is the best resource for practice and clinical guidelines. Create a free account, search for guidelines, and see original documentation at this source. Additionally, ECRI outlines inclusion criteria that is required for a guideline to be included. ECRI was the former content developer for National Guideline Clearinghouse.

Find Guidelines in Databases

CINAHL Complete specializes in nursing and allied health. Limit publication type to "Practice Guidelines."

JBI EBP Database (Joanna Briggs Institute) provides high quality nursing literature.  Limit to "Evidence Summaries" for synthesized evidence.

PEDro  (Physiotherapy Evidence Database) find RCTs, systematic reviews and practice guidelines in physiotherapy.

PubMed (MEDLINE) Use the Article Type filter of Guideline and Practice Guideline to limit results. Alternatively, try the MESH term Guidelines as Topic to AND with your search query.

Trip Pro is a clinical database to find high-quality research evidence; filter by guidelines on the left sidebar.

UpTo Date Look for Practice Changing UpDates under the contents tab.

Newly Published Guidelines

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