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Clinical Practice Guidelines

Canadian Medical Association CPG Infobase
Resource Type : Guideline database
Guidelines produced or endorsed in Canada by a national, provincial or territorial medical or health organization, professional society, government agency or expert panel.
Publisher : Canadian Medical Association

Size:
2000+
guidelines

Guideline Evaluation

The CFPC promotes the evaluation of clinical practice guidelines and other resources. Useful evaluation tools are:

  1. Frémont P, et al. Laval University Dept. of Family Medicine Evaluation criteria. © 2000.

  2. Health on the Net Foundation HONcode for medical and health web sites

  3. Guyatt GH, et al. Evidence-based medicine: principles for applying the Users' Guides to patient care. JAMA. 2000; 284(10): 1290-6.

GAC Clinical Practice Guidelines
Note: The GAC has been unable to secure the funds necessary to support its role of endorsing and summarizing clinical practice guidelines for use in Ontario. The work of the GAC will continue through project based activity at the Centre for Effective Practice (CEP).
http://www.effectivepractice.org/

U.S. National Guideline Clearinghouse
Resource Type: Guideline database; Guideline summaries
Systematically developed statements produced by medical specialty associations,  professional societies, public or private organizations, government agencies; with corroborating documentation of systematic literature search and review of scientific evidence.
Publisher :  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Size:
2400+
guidelines

Canadian Guideline Developers

The following Canadian guideline developers provide full-text access to their guidelines.

Blood Pressure Canada
Canadian Association of Radiologists
    (CAR)-Diagnostic Imaging Guidelines 2005, as a resource for family physicians.
Canadian Asthma Consensus Group
Canadian Cardiovascular Society
Canadian Diabetes Association
Canadian Hypertension Society
Canadian Ophthalmological Society
Canadian Paediatric Society
Canadian Pain Society
Canadian Psychiatric Association
Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
Cancer Care Ontario Program in Evidence-based Care
Collège des médecins du Québec
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
Dietitians of Canada
National Advisory Committee on Immunization
Public Health Agency of Canada
Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
Société québécoise d'hypertension artérielle
Therapeutics Initiative (BC)
Thrombosis Interest Group of Canada
Toward Optimized Practice Program
(formerly Alberta Clinical Practice Guidelines Program)
Working Group on Hypercholesterolemia and Other Dyslipidemias

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