Clinical Guidelines
| Clinical Practice Guidelines also known as Medical Guidelines or Practice Guidelines are systematically researched statements to help health professionals make decisions about a variety of health care conditions. These are produced by various organisations and professional bodies at local, state and national levels. Guidelines sit at the top of the evidence hierarchy, the information has been filtered and appraised by subject matter experts. Looking for internal policies? Access these through Prompt. Looking for tips on writing policy or guidelines? Check out our Writing Policy Documents guide. |
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Where to find guidelines
GIN International Guideline Library
The GIN International Guideline Library contains guidelines from across the globe in many languages, both published and in development. GIN is being used instead of the now inactive NHMRC Australian Clinical Practice Guidelines Portal.
Guideline Central is the world's largest free library of up-to-date guideline summaries. Browse thousands of free guidelines summaries encompassing every setting, specialty, and purpose. Full text of some guidelines will be behind a paywall.
Medical Journal of Australia Clinical Guidelines
Published by the MJA, these guidelines represent the consensus opinion of experts based on review of the scientific literature.
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Guidance
A UK independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on promoting good health and preventing and treating ill health.
Safer Care Victoria Clinical Guidance
Victorian practice guidance on a range of clinical topics.
Therapeutic Guidelines
An Australian resource, Therapeutic Guidelines are disease-oriented guidelines for prescribing and give clear, practical and succinct recommendations for therapy. Provides core clinical treatment advice and focus on "quality use of medicines".
A centralised database providing access to evidence-based resources such as guidelines, systematic reviews, and synopses from a variety of sources and contributors. After you run your search, use the Guidelines limit on the left hand side.
A WHO guideline is defined broadly as any information product developed by WHO that contains recommendations for clinical practice or public health policy. The Guidelines Review Committee ensures that WHO guidelines are of a high methodological quality and are developed through a transparent, evidence-based decision-making process.
By Topic
Anaesthetics
Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) Guidelines
Professional documents, statements and guidelines crucial for promoting the safety and quality of patient care. ANZCA is responsible for setting the standards of clinical practice for anaesthesia and pain medicine in Australia and New Zealand.
Cancer
Cancer Council Clinical Practice Guidelines
Diabetes
Cardiology
Paediatrics
Paediatric Injectable Guidelines
Developed by clinicians for clinicians to assist in the safe and effective administration of injectable medicines in children.
Royal Children’s Hospital Clinical Practice Guidelines
Resuscitation
The ANZCOR (Australian and New Zealand Committee on Resuscitation) guidelines provide those involved in resuscitation education and practice with recommendations based on scientific evidence.
General Practice
Psychiatry & Mental Health
Access guidelines produced by the RANZCP to support psychiatrists and other mental health professionals
Stroke
Stroke Foundation Guidelines
Women's Health
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) Statement and Guidelines
RANZCOG is responsible for setting the standards of clinical practice for obstetricians and gynaecologists in Australia and New Zealand.
The Women’s Clinical Guidelines
Systematically developed, evidence-based statements to assist decision-making in a the area of women's health, pregnacy and neonatal care.
Trauma
Finding Guidelines in databases and point of care tools
Many other databases also provide access to guidelines including PubMed, Trip and UpToDate.
ClinicalKey - Select Guidelines from the dropdown search menu or go directly to the A-Z list of guidelines from the guideline link on the home page.
ClinicalKey for Nursing - Select Guidelines from the dropdown search menu or go directly to the A-Z list of guidelines from the guideline link on the home page.
UpToDate - search your topic (e.g. asthma management), then scroll down in the topic contents on the left hand column and click on the Society Guideline Links section. A list of all international and Australian guidelines relevant to the topic will be displayed. Or type in keywords “Australian guidelines” to list all Australian guidelines indexed in UpToDate.
Trip - Look to the right of the results and select the Guidelines by evidence type.