D'Amour Library: Pharmacy Library Guide: Clinical Practice Guidelines

What's on this page?

This page contains links to Clinical Practice Guidelines, which are peer-reviewed recommendations for clinicians on how to care for patients. Guidelines can be accessed through professional societies, or searched for in both tertiary (like DynaMed) or secondary (like PubMed) sources.

The link below has a helpful explanation of what makes a good Guideline.

Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust
Recommendations from the Institute of Medicine on evaluating and appraising guidelines.

Professional Societies

Search for Guidelines

DynaMed
Supports clinical decision making with evidence-based summaries of diseases, disorders, diagnostics, and drugs. Drug information comes from Micromedex "Quick Answers" and links out its detailed monographs.
Lexidrug (Lexicomp)
PubMed
To find practice guidelines in PubMed, use the Practice Guidelines article type filter or add the term "practice guideline [PT]" to your search. Newest guidelines often appear in PubMed prior to be being published by professional organizations.
Trip Medical Database

ECRI Guidelines Trust
Compiles practice guidelines from many different professional societies and clinical areas. Some guidelines are rated for quality of evidence and strength of recommendation.
PharmGuides
Created by a pharmacist to help pharmacists and students more easily find guidelines.