Clinical Guidelines

Toward Optimized Practice (TOP) helps Alberta physicians implement clinical practice improvements into their clinics using measurement and evidence with the goal of improving both patient care and clinical management.

BC Guidelines are clinical practice guidelines and protocols that provide recommendations to B.C. practitioners on delivering high quality, appropriate care to patients with specific clinical conditions or diseases. These “Made in BC” clinical practice guidelines are developed by the Guidelines and Protocol Advisory Committee (GPAC), an advisory committee to the Medical Services Commission... (English only)

Communicable Disease Management Protocols The prevention, management and control of communicable diseases requires the active participation and cooperation of all health-care professionals and practitioners... (English only)

Cancer Care Ontario guidelines cover the entire cancer continuum – prevention, screening, diagnostic assessment, treatment, palliative care, end-of-life care and survivorship. They contain recommendations for practice and policy that reflect the most current and best evidence available from healthcare research and expert opinion.

French mainly. Few documents in English.

The guidelines have been published by PHAC to support Canada's disease prevention and control efforts.
Within each category, the guidelines are classified alphabetically by main topic or disease condition (appearing in bold) and then by year

From the CMAJ, November 6, 2007, 177(10).

National Guideline Clearinghouse (also known as NGC and guideline.gov) website shuts down after July 16, 2018. United States
See alternative sites below and the section Searching for Guidelines

The Guidelines International Network (GIN) is a network of organisations and individuals interested in evidence-based guidelines and has one of the world’s largest international guideline libraries.

United States

United Kingdom

World Health Organization Guidelines

Epistemonikos is a collaborative, multilingual database of health evidence. It is the largest source of systematic reviews relevant for health-decision making, and a large source of other types of scientific evidence.
Epistemonikos est une base de données collaborative et multilingue de santé, basée sur les évidences, source de revues systématiques pertinentes pour la prise de décision en matière de santé, et d'autres types de preuves scientifiques.

Guideline Central is dedicated to providing healthcare professionals with evidence-based clinical decision-support tools that are current, practical, and easily accessible.