The ECRI Guidelines Trust established in 2018 is a "publicly available online repository of objective, evidence-based clinical practice guideline content". This is currently the best resource for guidelines across healthcare domains. Create a free account to access, search for guidelines, and view original documentation.
Professional Organizations such as the American Heart Association, the National Cancer Institute, the American Psychiatric Association or the American Academy of Pediatrics may post relevant evidence-based medicine reviews or practice guidelines based on evidence-based-practice reviews on their Web sites. Consult individual society websites for specific guidelines. See an abbreviated list of society guideline pages below.
In many of the OHSU Library databases (MEDLINE, CINAHL, ClinicalKey for Nursing, Nursing Reference Center), you can limit your search to just guidelines.
Look for a filter called "guidelines", "practice guidelines", or "consensus development conference". These filters can be found under
UpToDate and Dynamed clinical topics include links to pertinent guidelines in the left column on the topic pages.
ClinicalKey is a clinical decision-making support tool, which includes clinical overviews, drug monographs, clinical calculators, procedure videos, as well as access to full text journals and over 1,000 ebooks.
For mobile access:
This evidence-based point-of-care resource includes continuously updated information, based on the best available evidence in nursing, allied health, and biomedical literature, written specifically for nurses to help answer clinical questions. Includes multimedia (e.g. videos and images), nursing management topics, care plans, leadership and management continuing education modules, additional skills, and more. It also contains cultural competencies, patient education, drug information, and reference books, guidelines, core measures, legal cases, and research instruments.
For mobile access:
NOTE: If you have the Nursing Reference Center app installed on your device, you must uninstall it before installing the Nursing Reference Center Plus app.
Within 24 hours, tap on the link in the email to authenticate the app.
Note: If the app is not authenticated after 24 hours, you will need to request a new authentication key.
