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.
PubMed and Ovid's MEDLINE both offer tools for searching MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine’s database for journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.
Database with access to journal articles spanning various disciplines in nursing and allied health, along with evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons, and more.
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.
Nursing Reference Center Plus is an evidence-based point-of-care resource designed specifically for nurses. It provides access to nursing care plans, nurse management and leadership topics, nursing skills checklists, continuing education credits, and more.
