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Practice Guidelines

• AARC Clinical Practice Guidelines from the American Association for Respiratory Care (Respiratory Care Online), these guidelines for respiratory care topics are organized by title.
  
• CancerNet PDQ Summaries from the National Cancer Institute provide cancer treatment and care information for both clinicians and patients.
  
• HSTAT: Health Services/Technology Assessment Text provides the full text of clinical practice guidelines developed under the auspices of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR). Supported by the National Library of Medicine.
  
• MD Consult Practice Guidelines include over 500 guidelines from participating professional organizations.
  
• MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report includes recommendations, surveillance studies, and information about notifiable diseases.
• National Guideline Clearinghouse is a searchable database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, created as a partnership between the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Association of Health Plans (AAHP).
• National Library of Medicine: Evaluating the Literature: Quality Filtering and Evidence Based Medicine and Health