Guidelines Resources
(contributed by the members of Evidence-based Health Discussion Group) (July 2011)
General Clinical Search Engines

www.tripdatabase.com
TRIP has thousands of guidelines from around the globe.  These are categorised in geographics areas (e.g. USA, Canada, Aus & NZ etc). 

http://www.guideline.gov/
National Guidelines Clearinghouse is a public source of evidence-based practice guidelines

http://www.g-i-n.net
Guidelines International Network (G-I-N). The International Guideline Library contains more than 7,200 (by July 2011) guidelines, evidence reports and related documents, developed or endorsed by G-I-N member organisations. In the Health Topic Collection (HTC) you can find all publications from the Guideline Library for health topics (based on MeSH terms) selected by the G-I-N Website Content Group. The selected topics are also related to the on-going work of the G-I-N working groups and communities of interest

www.evidence.nhs.uk
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in UK has produced pathways/ guidelines on a range of medical specialties.  The site also includes some other guidelines.

www.sign.ac.uk
SIGN - Scottish Intercollegiate Guidlines Network :    www.sign.ac.uk 
* Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS)
http://www.cks.nhs.uk/home
* National Clinical Guideline Centre (NCGC)
http://www.ncgc.ac.uk/
* Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Clinical Guidelines
http://www.rcn.org.uk/development/practice/clinicalguidelines

http://www.clinicalguidelines.gov.au/
The Australian Clinical Practice Guidelines Portal 
also http://www.mja.com.au/public/guides/guides.html 
http://www.tg.org.au/ (cost) 
http://www.racgp.org.au/guidelines 
http://www.cari.org.au/guidelines.php [these could all be in the Clinical Guidelines Portal http://www.clinicalguidelines.gov.au/about.php]
http://www.southernhealth.org.au/page/Health_Professionals/CCE/Evidence_based_clinical_practice_guidelines/
http://www.jeanhailes.org.au/research/research-staff/evidence-synthesis 
 http://www.icsi.org/guidelines_ 

http://www.nzgg.org.nz/search
The New Zealand Guidelines Group guidelines 

http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/collection/clinical_practice_guidelines
The Clinical Practical Guidelines from Canada (CMAJ)  

*  Great Ormond Street Hospital Clinical Guidelines
http://www.gosh.nhs.uk/clinical_information/clinical_guidelines/index.html
Produced by the staff of Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust to guide and facilitate patient care

DUODECIM (Finnish) Guidelines . 
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/0470057203

-The main guidelines developed in the Spanish National Health System are available in http://www.guiasalud.es/web/guest/gpc-sns
-Some are translated into
English:http://www.guiasalud.es/web/guest/gpc-traducciones

http://clinicalguidelines.org/
(alphabetically arranged according to medical specialties; created by a Maltese Infectious Disease consultant Dr.Tonio Piscopo)

Disease-specific Guidelines
Cancer
http://www.cancerguidelines.ca/Guidelines/inventory/search.php
(rated with the AGREE II) (developed by  the Capacity Enhancement Program under sponsorship of Cancer Care Ontario and the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer)

www.nccn.org
(developed by leading 21 cancer institutions in the US; annually updated; algorithmically presented, highly popular among the US oncologists)

Cardiology
http://www.cardiosource.org/science-and-quality/practice-guidelines-and-quality-standards.aspx
(developed by American College of Cardiology)

Dentistry (Preventive) 
www.ivorenkruis.nl    
contains several guidelines/advices, generally accepted by Dutch GDPs on prevention of dental caries, tooth erosion, fluoride intake, etc. 
General guidelines (advices on inter professional behavior / patient referral, etc.): www.nmt.nl

Emergency Medicine:
http://www.acep.org/clinicalpolicies/

Gastroenterology
The World Gastroenterology Organization have developed some interesting global guidelines that are also translated to several languages. Some of them can be used in different settings since they have a "cascades" methodology, were you will find what you can do no matter whether you are in a big center or in a little town with not much resources.

http://www.worldgastroenterology.org/global-guidelines.html


AGA Guidelines    : http://www.gastro.org/practice/medical-position-statements
ACG Guidelines    : http://www.acg.gi.org/physicians/clinicalupdates.asp#guidelines
BSG Guidelines     http://www.bsg.org.uk/clinical/general/guidelines.html
SSAT Guidelines    http://www.ssat.com/cgi-bin/guidelines.cgi

Hepatology: 

AASLD guidelines:    https://www.aasld.org/practiceguidelines/Pages/default.aspx
EASL Guidelines    http://www.easl.eu/_clinical-practice-guideline

Endoscopy:

ASGE Guidelines:    http://www.asge.org/PublicationsProductsIndex.aspx?id=352

Obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine
The Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research website includes a section listing guidelines available in the fields of obstetrics, gynaecology and reproductive medicine.
The list is available at: http://www.gfmer.ch/Guidelines/Obstetrics_gynecology_guidelines.php

Pediatrics 
* Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
http://www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/index.cfm 
* American Academy of Pediatrics
http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/practice_guidelines/index.dtl
evidence-based clinical practice guidelines
* Cincinatti Children's Hospital Medical Center evidence-based clinical practice guidelines http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/svc/alpha/h/health-policy/guidelines.htm

Paediatric UK guidelines reviewed and endorsed by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health are available at: www.rcpch.ac.uk/Guidelines. 
and by specialty here - http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/child-health/standards-care/child-health-guidelines-and-standards/guidelines-endorsed-rcpch-subspeci 

Speech-language pathology and for audiology chief resource :

http://www.asha.org/members/ebp/compendium/