Clinical Practice Guidelines
What are Clinical Practice Guidelines?
"Clinical practice guidelines (or simply “clinical guidelines” or "practice guidelines") are recommendations on how to diagnose and treat a medical condition. They are mainly written for doctors, but also for nurses and other health care professionals."
For more detailed information on Clinical Practice Guidelines including Recognizing Credible Guidelines, Evidence Based Guidelines, Grading and Assessing Guidelines, and more, click on the button just below to access UpToDate. Type clinical guidelines in the search box and hit "Enter" or "Return" on your keyboard. In the results list, click on Overview of Clinical Practice Guidelines. If you are off campus, you will be asked to login with your UNCW e-mail login and password.
Finding Guidelines Using the Randall Library Home Page
Note: If you are accessing databases , journal articles, or e-books from off campus, you will be asked to log in with your UNCW e-mail login and password.
Finding Guidelines in Individual Databases
Guidelines can be found in a variety of places. Below are examples of databases and how to find Guidelines within them:
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Nursing and Allied Health Database (ProQuest)
PubMed
ECRI Institute
Need Additional Help? Contact John Osinski, Nursing Librarian, Randall Library