Clinical Practice Guidelines

Clinical practice guidelines are developed by professionals in various organizations and associations. Some of these, which are relevant to family physicians, are listed below.

Associations and organizations providing clinical practice guidelines:

Canadian Medical Association CPG Infobase
National, provincial or territorial medical or health organization or government agency guidelines.
NHS Evidence - National Library of Guidelines (United Kingdom)
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and other national agency guidelines. Mainly UK guidelines, plus select guidelines from other countries.
Canadian Association of Radiologists
Canadian Cardiovascular Society
Canadian Diabetes Association
Canadian Hypertension Society
Canadian Ophthalmological Society
Canadian Paediatric Society
Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
Canadian Thoracic Society
Cancer Care Ontario Program in Evidence-based Care
Collège des médecins du Québec
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
Hypertension Canada
National Advisory Committee on Immunization
National Pain Centre (McMaster University)
Public Health Agency of Canada
Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
Société québécoise d'hypertension artérielle
Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research
Therapeutics Initiative (BC)
Thrombosis Canada
Toward Optimized Practice Program (Alberta)