Clinical Practice Guidelines Portal and Register
A new national Clinical Practice Guidelines Portal will provide links to current Australian guidelines developed by governments, professional colleges, specialty societies and non-government agencies.
Clinical practice guidelines are critical tools used by health professionals and researchers to improve the health of Australians, yet in the past have often been hard to locate, difficult to access and sometimes out of date.
Developed by the National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) National Institute of Clinical Studies, the new national portal is a ‘one stop shop’ for consumers as well as clinicians, researchers, and policy makers to access guidelines developed during the preceding five years for use in the Australian health care system.
In addition to the Portal, the NHMRC has developed a national clinical practice Guidelines in Development Register. This Register contains information about clinical practice guidelines that are planned or currently being developed in Australia.
The Portal and Register can be accessed at http://www.clinicalguidelines.gov.au
Further information is available at http://www.nhmrc.gov.au
