The following is a selected list of websites that you may find useful.
Best Practice Guidelines
Developed by the Royal Nurses Association of Ontario. Designed to provide nurses with evidence-based recommendations regarding assessment and/or screening in a variety of practice settings. Includes 29 published guidelines as well as a Toolkit and Educator's Resource to support implementation.
CPG Infobase: Clinical Practice Guidelines
The CPG Infobase is a database of evidence-based Canadian clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). Maintained by Joule™, a CMA company, it includes approximately 1,200 CPGs developed or endorsed by authoritative medical or health organizations in Canada.
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
Produced by Oxford University, and one of the leading worldwide centers for evidence-based medicine. Contains information about learning, doing and teaching EBM as well as some useful analytical tools.
National Guideline Clearinghouse
Comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents. You can browse the guidelines by disease/condition, by treatment/intervention, or by the name of the submitting organization. Guidelines are abstracted into a standardized format and easy to compare.
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