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ECRI Guidelines Trust
ECRI Guidelines Trust is a publicly available web-based repository of objective, evidence-based clinical practice guideline content. Its purpose is to provide physicians, nurses, other clinical specialties, and members of the healthcare community with up-to-date, clinical practices to advance safe and effective patient care
ASHA Practice Policy
Practice Policy is part of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's recommended practice guidelines. Many of these are based in evidence, and can and should be assessed using EBP.
AOTA Practice Guidelines
Official guidelines from the American Occupational Therapy Association. Many are based in evidence and are assessed for ongoing validity.
APTA Clincal Practice Guidelines
Official clinical practice guidelines--both evidence-based and not--from the American Physical Therapy Association. These are assessed for validity on a regular basis, but can be helpful prompts for research and used in the research process.
NASW Practice Standards and Guidelines
Official practice guidelines for social work from the National Association of Social Workers. These are both evidence and non-evidence based and are assessed periodically for validity.
AANN Guidelines
From the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses The aim of the AANN Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) series, created by the CPG Editorial Board, is to provide an overview on caring for a specific patient population as well as to provide nurses with a tool that will assist them in delivering the optimum quality-focused patient care. Please print these guides for your reference and share them with colleagues.
BMJ Clinical Practice Guidelines (UK)
Article from the British Medical Journal that describes the development, implementation, and appraisal of clinical practice guidelines. It also explores ways of increasing their use in nursing.
CDC Guidelines
The Prevention Guidelines Database is a comprehensive compendium of all of the official guidelines and recommendations published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the prevention of diseases, injuries, and disabilities. This compendium was developed to allow public health practitioners and others to quickly access the full set of CDC's guidelines from a single point, regardless of where they were originally published.
Veterans Affairs Clinical Practice Guidelines
VHA, in collaborations with the Department of Defense (DoD) and other leading professional organizations, has been developing clinical practice guidelines since the early 1990s. In 2010 the Institute of Medicine identified VA/DoD as leaders in clinical practice guideline development.

Implementation of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines is one strategy VHA has embraced to improve care by reducing variation in practice and systematizing “best practices”.

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