Guidelines and consensus and technology assessment statements offering guidance for current medical practice.
AHCPR Clinical Practice Guidelines: Good Medicine or a Bitter Pill?
Dr. Barbara S. Schneidman moderates a panel of experts including Dr. J. Jarrett Clinton, Dr. Melvin Gerald of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR), and Dr. Sanford Leikin, who discuss issues relating to the implementation of these guidelines.
Format: Audiovisual
Med Ctr AV Col./Reserve Room W18 N38 no.659 1994
Provider: Agency of Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR)
American Psychiatric Association (APA) practice guidelines provide evidence-based recommendations for the assessment and treatment of psychiatric disorders. These guidelines are available through the database PsychiatryOnline.
Format: Database
Provider: PsychiatryOnline
Use of this resource is restricted to Duke faculty, staff, and students.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Development Conferences are convened to evaluate available scientific information and resolve safety and efficacy issues related to biomedical technology. Of use to both health professionals and the public, the resultant NIH Consensus Statements are intended to advance understanding of the technology.
Format: Website
Provider: National Institutes of Health
These reports are included as part of an effort by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) to develop scientific information for other agencies and organizations on which to base clinical guidelines, performance measures, and other quality improvement tools.
Format: Website
Provider: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
The Web version of this resource carefully reviews the evidence for and against hundreds of preventive services, and recommends tests, immunizations, or counseling intervention when there is evidence that it is effective. Although the targeted audiences are primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, this guide will continue to be of great value to policymakers, researchers, employers, and those in the health care financing community. Also in print: Reserve Room WA108 Un33gu 1996
Format: Website
Provider: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Health Services / Technology Assessment Text (HSTAT) is a searchable collection of full-text clinical practice guidelines, technology assessments and health information. The collection is located on the NCBI Bookshelf (accessible through PubMed) and can also be accessed directly at the link below.
Format: Website
Provider: National Center for Biotechnology Information
MD Consult provides access to 48 medical texts in 29 specialties, current peer-reviewed guidelines covering hundreds of conditions and procedures, patient education materials (including Spanish-language handouts), and texts from articles in 33 medical journals, including Clinics of North America and Lancet Oncology. In addition, MD Consult provides an update service, summarizing articles in recent medical journals and highlighting articles that patients may be reading in the popular press.
Format: Database
Provider: Elsevier Inc.
Use of this resource is restricted to Duke faculty, staff, and students.
Updated weekly, the Measure Index is a comprehensive list of measure summaries organized alphabetically, by measure developer and/or submitter name (measure developers and submitters include both organizations and individuals).
Format: Website
Provider: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Developed in 1998 by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR), in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans, the NGC is designed to promote quality health care by making available the latest clinical practice guidelines based on scientific evidence.
Format: Website
Provider: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
This premier health technology assessment and transfer program, managed by the NIH Office of Medical Applications of Research (OMAR), organizes major conferences that produce consensus statements and technology assessment statements on controversial issues in medicine for health care providers, patients, and the general public. More than 120 NIH consensus statements and technology assessment statements have been issued since the program's inception in 1977.
Format: Website
Provider: National Institutes of Health
