Guidelines

The following are a small selection of resources for guidelines.

• Both BMJ Best Practice and DynaMed Plus include guidelines as part of a topic. Note that many guidleines are published in journals. ClinicalKey also has a section on Guidelines.
  

• Some of the databases have guidelines as a limit or filter eg PubMed - use the Article type limits and select Guidelines; CINAHL Plus - limit by Publication Type and select Practice guidelines.

• Some of the colleges have guidelines eg RANZCP, American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
  

New Zealand

Starship

• Starship Clinical Guidelines
  

• Paediatric Intensive Care Clinical Guidelines

Ministry of Health: Guides and standards

Bpac - Best Practice Advocacy Centre, New Zealand - 'advocates for best practice in healthcare treatments and investigations across a wide range of health service delivery areas'.

• Antibiotics guide

New Zealand Sexual Health Society guidelines for use in primary care
 

International

NHMRC Australian Clincal Practice Guidelines

Department of Health (Australia) Series of National Guidelines (SoNGS) on communicable diseases

NICE - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, England and Wales.

SIGN - Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network

TRIP - useful collection of international guidelines.

ECRI Guidelines Trust - free registration required

Other Resources

• Cochrane New Zealand PEARLS (created by the Primary Healthcare Field based in New Zealand and funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Health and New Zealand Doctor)
  

• Discover portal hosted by the National Institute for Health Research: Dissemination Centre (UK) 'identifies the most reliable, relevant and significant health research findings and summarises them in a range of helpful formats ... – Signals, Highlights and Themed Reviews.'
  

• BestBETS - 'developed in the Emergency Department of Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK, to provide rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions, using a systematic approach to reviewing the literature'.

• Health Quality and Safety Committee - VTE prevention programme

• CADTH (Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health) has a number of reviews and evidence based reports for a wide spread of topics including medicinal cannabis.
  

• Evidence Briefings from Public Health England 'summary of the best available evidence that has been identified and selected from research using systematic and transparent search methods, in order to answer a specific question.'

• EPC Evidence-Based Reports from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)(USA). AHRQ also publish other evidence based material including comparative effectiveness reviews. Use the search box in the website (or do a google search) to locate these.
  

• Epistemonikos - Evidence-Based Medicine Unit, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. 'Epistemonikos is a collaborative, multilingual database of research evidence and knowledge translation products that are usually referred as "evidence", according to the meaning given in Evidence-Based Health Care. Epistemonikos was developed and is maintained by systematically searching electronic databases and other sources for relevant systematic reviews and broad syntheses of reviews.' It also includes the primary studies in the systematic reviews. NOTE: You can search this from within the Cochrane Library. Do a BASIC search (not an advanced search)  and in the results list click the More tab then Epistemonikos from the drop-down list. Only systematic reviews are included in the results.
  

• CareSearch - Australian palliative care evidence with automatic PubMed searches on a variety of topics relevant to palliative care

• PalliAGED -  Australian palliative care evidence and practice resources in aged care.

• PDQ-Evidence for health policy making and health systems

• Monash Health Centre for Clinical Effectiveness 'reviews of the evidence to inform decision-making for clinical practice, policy and quality improvement initiatives'

• James Lind Alliance -'brings patients, carers and clinicians together in Priority Setting Partnerships (PSPs)to identify and prioritise the Top 10 unanswered questions or evidence uncertainties that they agree are the most important.'Useful if your topic is identifying research gaps by condition.

• Sumsearch2 - Search PubMed for systematic reviews, guidelines and studies

• Public Health England has a number of resources guides including Finding the Evidence: Child Health

• McMaster Health Forum (McMaster University, Canada)
  
  • Health Systems Evidence 'evidence to support policy makers, stakeholders and researchers interested in how to strengthen or reform health systems or in how to get cost-effective programs, services and drugs to those who need them.' Most items include a quality rating. Includes systematic reviews.
  • McMaster Optimal Aging Portal
  • Social Systems Evidence (McMaster University and Monash University) - useful for population health topics eg housing, sustainable development goals

Systematic reviews done by:

• Campbell Collaboration
• EPPI Centre (Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre) including  their DoPHER database -'systematic and non-systematic reviews of effectiveness in health promotion and public health worldwide'
  
• HealthEvidence a Canadian resource of systematic reviews on public health topics
• BEME Best Evidence Medical & Health Professional Education for both registered and completed reviews.
• Joanna Briggs Institute for nursing
• NOTE: KSR Evidence has free 'short, accessible bottom line' of systematic reviews with 'key clinically relevant implications of the results reported in the review and includes information about the reliability of these results'. The rest of the database is subscription access and 'includes all systematic reviews and meta-analyses of all health topic areas published since 2015 (some topics date back from 2010)'. See also Publications.
  
• List of social and psychosocial information resources for systematic reviews

Health Technology Assessments 

• NIHR HTA resource - the HTAs are in the NIHR Journals Library
• INAHTA - International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment. The Publications tab has INAHTA Briefswhich are 'brief overviews of recently published report' with links to the fulltext when available..
• Centre for Reviews and Dissemination database (maintained until 31st March 2018)
• See also NZHTA publications - active 1996-2008
  

Clinical trials

• York Health Economics Health Consortium Finding clinical trials, research registers and research results
• University of Leeds Library has a comprehensive list
• University of Otago Library - Clinical Trials segment of their Grey Literature guide.
• Clinical trials registers and regulatory databases from the Cochrane Collaboration. Includes import filters for EndNote.
• Section 6.2.3  Unpublished and ongoing studies in the Cochrane handbook has lists and links to national and pharmaceutical company trial registers
• WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP)
• Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry
• Alltrials 'international initiative of Ben Goldacre, BMJ, Centre for Evidence-based Medicine, Cochrane Collaboration, James Lind Initiative, PLOS and Sense about Science'
• OpenTrials 'locate, match, and share all publicly accessible data and documents, on all trials conducted, on all medicines and other treatments, globally' - collaboration between Open Knowledge International and Dr Ben Goldacre from the University of Oxford DataLab.
  
• Clinical Trials preprints on BioRxiv
• ALOIS - From the Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive Improvement group 'controlled trials that have been completed, are ongoing or are planned in the areas of dementia (prevention and treatment), mild cognitive impairment and cognitive improvement...updated every month from searches of a wide range of databases and clinical trials registries, with the help of a team of volunteers'.
• EU clinical trials register
• UK clinical trials gateway includes registered, recruiting and completed trials

There are also journals that assess and appraise original published studies ie review individual studies. Articles in these can be useful examples of commentary on and how to critique a study.

• Evidence-Based Nursing
• Evidence-Based Medicine: Linking Research to Practice
  
• Evidence-Based Mental Health
• Nursing Review (NZ publication) - the Professional development Evidence-based practice section reviews recent articles.