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 You need guidelines to find out the latest best practice and recommendations for treatments and therapies. Resources to help you to find guidelines:

NICE

NICE is the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. It publishes a wide range of evidence-based, UK-based guidelines.

Finding a NICE guideline

You can view guidelines by condition, health and social care delivery, health protection, lifestyle and wellbeing, population group or healthcare setting.

NICE home page with the guidelines viewing options listed

You can also view all guidelines and then filter by your keyword search term.

list of guidelines with a filter box

Viewing a NICE guideline

The guideline page includes a web page version of the guideline as well as a link to download the PDF version.

example of a guideline page, including the viewing options

You can also see related content to the topic.

  • Tools and Resources – to help you to put the guideline into practice
  • Information for the Public – this may be useful for creating patient information
  • Evidence – review of supporting evidence
  • History - documents created during development

Clinical Key

Clinical Key is a clinical specialist search engine. It includes full-text content from a wide range of publishers. Browse the guidelines by clicking the guidelines box on the home page.

clinical key home page showing the guidelines box to click

Use the filter options to focus the list of guidelines. You can filter by:

  • Specialty
  • Authoring organization
  • Title
In the example below I have filtered the full list of guidelines by title containing text "multiple sclerosis".

guidelines on clinical key for multiple sclerosis

Clinical Key is available to UHNM members of staff. Log in with your NHS OpenAthens username.

TRIP

TRIP is a specialist healthcare search engine. You can search across a wide range of content for free. Focus your results by using the filters.

TRIP search results page, filters are on the left-hand-side

The TRIP filters include different levels of evidence such as guidelines. In this example I have filtered the results by UK guidelines.

TRIP search results showing only UK guidelines

Anyone can search TRIP without a login. NHS users can log in with their NHS OpenAthens username to get more content. You may need to log in to the individual resources to access full-text, if available.

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