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Clinical Practice Guidelines

Clinical Practice Guidelines are systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care. Guidelines are produced by a variety of organizations and are usually freely available.

CMA Infobase: Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs)

The CMA Infobase is a public database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). Maintained by the Canadian Medical Association, it currently includes over 1200 CPGs developed or endorsed by an authorative medical or health organization in Canada.

Nursing Best Practice Guidelines (RNAO)

Best practice guidelines and other tooks for client care for Ontario nurses. There are currently 50 published guidelines as well as a toolkit and educator's resource to support implementation. Many of these publications are available in French, among other languages and we continue to translate materials on an ongoing basis.

Standards and Guidelines of the College of Nurses of Ontario : The College provides practice standards and guidelines to support nurses in providing safe and ethical nursing care to the people of Ontario.

Clinical Practice Guidelines of the Indigenous Program at the University of Ottawa

Evaluating Clinical Guidelines

Evaluate the clinical guidelines: you can use one of these tools.

From CADTH, Critical Appraisal of Clinical Practice Guidelines
"Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE II) ". For more information, check out their resources.

About this libguide...

This online guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. This guide is attributed to Marie-Cécile Domecq

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If you have questions, or if you run into problems that the guide does not address, please e-mail Marie-Cécile Domecq at mdomecq@uottawa.ca