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Answering Clinical Questions: Finding CP Guidelines

Clinical evidence based practice resources

How to find Guidelines

Clinical Practice Evidence Summaries or Guidelines (CPGs) also known as Medical Guidelines or Practice Guidelines are systematically researched statements to help health professionals make decisions about a variety of health care conditions.

These are produced by various health-care organisations and professional bodies at local, state and national levels.

Here we outline Clinical Practice Databases the UWA Library subscribes to as well as some of the core openly accessible guidelines developed by government health support agencies or hospitals or by specialist medical practice professional associations.

Finding Guidelines in UWA Library Databases

Image - Where to find evidence?

There are a number of specialist medical databases that have been especially developed to support heath professionals within Clinical Practice setting; such as BMJ Best Practice, UpToDate, Therapeutic Guidelines (eTG Complete) and the Australian Medical Handbook (AMH). 

Broader Health and Medical Sciences databses such as Medline, Embase, Cochrane, JBI, or ClinicalKey, will focus on other levels of medical evidence. However, you may also be able to identify clinical practice guidelines through the use of relevant key works and by limiting to these as a publication type.  

See our full list of Health and Medical Science Database Resources at this tab.

 

Introducing Core Clinical Practice Databases

 

Finding open access guidelines

Searching for openly accessible Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG's)

There are several different platforms available for searching for guidelines here in Australia and Internationally. 

You can also try a Google search using your research topic keywords + the terms Clinical Guidelines, Practice Guidelines or Guidelines.

 

Core openly accessible CPG Guidelines

Here are a some examples of core openly accessible Clinical Practice Guidelines from government and health professional oganisations as well as sources of community based clinical education resources: 

 

 

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