Info Rx for Australian Health Professionals

Decision Support Resources and Clinical Guidelines, Pathways and Protocols

 

Decision Support Resources

Best Practice (payment required)
Best Practice is a completely new concept for information delivered at the point of care.
In a single source we have combined the latest research evidence, guidelines and expert opinion – presented in a step-by-step approach, covering prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Best Practice provides a second opinion in an instant, without the need for checking multiple resources. Its unique patient-focused approach represents a major new advancement in information delivery at the point of care.

Clin-eguide (payment required)

Cochrane Library
A national licence has been purchased for Australian clinicians by the National Institute for Clinical Studies.

DynaMed (payment required)
DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other healthcare professionals for use primarily at the 'point-of-care' with clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,200 topics.

PEMsoft Online (payment required)
PEMSoft is a clinical decision support system and reference service.

UpToDate (payment required)
UpToDate is a clinical decision support system that helps clinicians throughout the world provide the best patient care. We use current evidence to answer clinical questions quickly and easily at the point of care. This saves clinicians time, improves outcomes and lowers health care costs.

 

Clinical Guidelines Pathways and Protocols

Australian

International

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Australia. Dept of Veterans Affaifs. Community Nursing Guidelines

Australian Cancer Network Clinical Guidelines

Australian College of Midwives Guidelines for Midwifery Practice

Australian Department of Health and Ageing Treatment & Techniques Guidelines

Australian Resuscitation Council

* Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures (Surgical) [ASERNIPS]

Best Practice Information Sheets from the Joanna Briggs Institute

CARPA Reference Manual [Central Australian Rural Practitioners Association]

Clinical Guidelines and Procedures for the Use of Buprenorphine in the Treatment of Heroin Dependence

Clinical Practice Guidelines Portal (NH&MRC)

Diabetes Australia - Best Practice Guidelines for Health Professionals

Eye Emergency Manual (NSW Health)

Heart Foundation

Joanna Briggs Institute

Kidney Health Australia CARI Guidelines [Caring for Australians with Renal Impairment]

King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women (Women & New Born Health Service, WA)

Management of Patients with Psychostimulant Toxicity: Guidelines for Ambulance Services

Management of Patients with Psychostimulant Toxicity: Guidelines for Emergency Departments

Medical Journal of Australia Clinical Guidelines

National Asthma Council Australia - Asthma Management Handbook

National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre (NBOCC) Clinical Best Practice

National Drug Strategy (Drug & Alcohol Abuse)

* National Guidelines for Organ and Tissue Donation / Australasian Transplant Coordinators Association Incorporated 4th ed 2008

National Health & Medical Research Council Clinical Practice Guidelines [Australia]

National Stroke Foundation - National Clinical Guidelines

* New South Wales Health

Osteoporosis Australia

Paediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines   (NSW Health)

Perinatal Care of Substance Using Mothers and Their Infants (Curtin University, WA Centre for Evidence Based Nursing & Midwifery)

Princess Margaret Hospital for Children (Children & Adolescent Health Service, WA)

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Clinical Practice Guidelines

Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Guidelines

* Royal Children's Hospital (Melbourne) Clincial Guidelines (Hospital)

* Royal Children's Hospital (Melbourne) Clinical Practice Guidelines

Rural Emergency Clinical Guidelines for Adults (NSW Health)

Snake and Spider Bite Guidelines (NSW Health)

Therapeutic Goods Administration Clinical Guidelines

Western Australian Therapeutics Advisory Group (WATAG)
Western Australian Drug Evaluation Panel - WADEP
Western Australian Psychotropic Drugs Committee - WAPDC
Western Australian Medication Safety Group - WAMSG

The Women's - Royal Women's Hospital Victoria Clinical Practice Guidelines

 

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American College of Cardiology Practice Guidelines and Quality Standards

American College of Emergency Physicians ACEO Clinical Policies

American Diabetes Association. Clinical Practice Recommendations 2011

American Heart Association Statements and Guidelines

* American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Practice and Guidelines

* Best BETs - Best Evidence Topics
BETs were developed in the Emergency Department of Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK, to provide rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions, using a systematic approach to reviewing the literature. BETs take into account the shortcomings of much current evidence, allowing physicians to make the best of what there is. Although BETs initially had an emergency medicine focus, there are a significant number of BETs covering cardiothoracics, nursing, primary care and paediatrics.

* Canadian Medical Association - CMA Infobase (Clinical Practice Guidelines Database)

Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC)

Centers for Disease Control (US)

Clinical Knowledge Summaries (payment required)
The NHS Clinical Knowledge Summaries (formerly PRODIGY) are a reliable source of evidence-based information and practical 'know how' about the common conditions managed in primary care. CKS is commissioned and paid for by NHS Evidence, a service provided by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.

College of Emergency Medicine Clinical Guidelines (British)

European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines

European Association of Urology EAU Clinical Guidelines

European Respiratory Society Guidelines

European Society for Medical Oncology ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines

European Society of Cardiology Guidelines

Infectious Diseases Society of America Standards, Practice Guidelines and Statements

National Comprehensive Cancer Network Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology [US]

National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) [US] NGC is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NGC was originally created by AHRQ in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans (now America's Health Insurance Plans [AHIP]).

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Pathways and Clinical Guidelines [UK]

National Library of Medicine HSTAT Health Services / Technology Assessment Text [US]

New Zealand Guidelines Group

Nursing Best Practice Guidelines
"The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) launched the Nursing Best Practice Guidelines (NBPG) Project in November 1999 with funding from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. The purpose of this multi-year project is to support Ontario Nurses by providing them with Best Practice Guidelines for client care. The project has been designed in multiple cycles. Each cycle consists of five phases: planning, development, implementation, evaluation and dissemination."

Royal College of Nursing Clinical Guidelines

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)
Develops and publishes evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for use by the health service in Scotland

Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract Guidelines
These patient care guidelines were written for the primary care physician on a variety of digestive diseases to assist on when to refer the patient for surgical consultation.

* Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations

 

Page last updated / reviewed: 16 May 2011

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