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Clinical Practice Guideline Collections

AHS Clinical Knowledge Topics
The Clinical Knowledge Viewer (CKV) is developed by AHS and contains provincially developed and approved clinical guidance and practice standards. Coverage in Addiction and Mental Health, Anesthesia, Cancer, Emergency, Maternal Health, Medicine/Surgery, Pediatrics, Seniors/Palliative Care, and other cross departmental topics.
Toward Optimized Practice (TOP)
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Toward Optimized Practice (TOP) helps Alberta physicians and practice teams implement evidence-based practices to enhance the care of their patients. TOP CPGs primarily differ from other CPGs by addressing practice gaps or behaviours that exist in Alberta in regards to various health topics, in a user friendly format.
CMA Infobase
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CMA Infobase is a Canadian Clinical Practice Guidelines database. It includes approximately 1,200 CPGs developed or endorsed by authoritative medical or health organizations in Canada.
ECRI Guidelines Trust
This publicly available guideline repository was created by the same team that developed and maintained the National Guideline Clearinghouse™ for more than 20 years. Find concise, summarized briefs of guidelines on a variety of clinical topics from nationally and internationally recognized medical societies and health care organizations. (Free Registration Required)

Individual Guidelines

Our Subject Guides bring together select topic-specific clinical practice guidelines. These can be found in the Guidelines section of the guides (eg. Addictions & Mental Health, Cancer Care, Nutrition).
Trip Database is easy way to search and identify clinical practice guidelines for your topic. The filter menu on the left allows you to sort by evidence type and provides a list of guidelines ordered by jurisdiction.
DynaMed also provides consolidated source of guidelines listed within each of the conditions/topics covered - look for the Guidelines and Resources section in a topic.

Looking for the best evidence?

Our point of care resources synthesize all the best and latest evidence on clinical topics and are updated frequently. They are a quick and easy way to find information to support evidence-informed decisions.
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Non-Clinical Sources

Canadian Standards Association Guidelines

Techstreet Subscriptions
TechStreet includes standards from The Canadian Standards Association, The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), and The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Includes access to over a 150 documents from a wide variety of publishers: AAMI, ASHRAE, ASME, CGSB, CSA, Document Repository, IEC, ISEA, ISO, NFPA (Fire), NRC, ULC

FGI Guidelines

MADCAD.com
Standards and guidelines database providing access to the FGI Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospitals, Outpatient Facilities, and Residential Health, Care & Support Facilities.

Instruction For Use (IFU) Documents

oneSOURCE
The oneSOURCE document site provides access to the world’s most complete online database service of manufacturers’ Instruction for Use Documents (IFUs). Off-site access not available.

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