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Canadian Practice Guidelines

CMA: infobase: Clinical Practice Guidelines
This Canadian Medical Association database provides access to nearly 2000 clinical practice guidelines produced or endorsed in Canada. It offers a number of search and browse capabilities, including a search by MeSH terms under the Basic Search option.
Centre for Effective Practice
GAC: Guideline Advisory Committee
Archive only. Now part of Centre for Effective Practice. The Guidelines Advisory Committee was a partnership between the Ontario Medical Association and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care.
Clinical Practice Guidelines and Protocols in British Columbia
Toward Optimized Practices. Clinical Practice Guidelines. Alberta
Cancer Care Ontario
Therapeutics Initiative - Evidence Based Drug Therapy
Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)
Unbiased, evidence-based information on drugs, devices, health care systems and best practices.
Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada

Once the search is complete, click on "More Limits"; scroll down to "Publication Types"; click on "Practice Guideline"; click on "Limit A Search"; the limit applies to the last search, unless otherwise specified

Click on "Limits" tab; under "Publication Types", click on "Practice Guideline"; this will limit every subsequent search to practice guidelines, therefore, remember to remove the limit if no longer searching for guidelines

National Guideline Clearinghouse This link opens in a new window
A public database of evidence based clinical practice guidelines. The NGC is sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in the US. The site has a detailed search interface that offers options for limiting. There is also the added feature that allows comparison of guidelines.