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The site featured: [citation needed] A Guideline Comparison utility that gives users the ability to generate side-by-side comparisons for any combination of two or more guidelines; Guideline Syntheses prepared by NGC staff, comparing guidelines covering similar topics, highlighting areas of similarity and difference.
When the agency produced a guideline that concluded that back pain surgery was unnecessary and potentially harmful, a lobbying campaign aided by Congressmen whose backs had been operated on changed the name of the agency and scaled back the guidelines program, which existed as the National Guideline Clearinghouse. [7] until it was defunded in 2018.
The organization was the sole prime contractor for developing and maintaining AHRQ's National Guideline Clearinghouse, a database of clinical practice guidelines, since its inception in 1998 and the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse, [14] a database of evidence-based healthcare quality measures, since its inception in 2001.
National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods; National Guideline Clearinghouse; National Resource Center for Health Information Technology; National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity; National Survey on Drug Use and Health; Nutrition Program for the Elderly
By 2006, the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) contained more than 1,700 disease-specific diagnosis, management and treatment recommendations, developed from current medical literature. [19] The goal of the NGC is to provide health professionals and institutions, health plans and health care purchasers an accessible mechanism for obtaining ...
Plates vi & vii of the Edwin Smith Papyrus (around the 17th century BC), among the earliest medical guidelines. A medical guideline (also called a clinical guideline, standard treatment guideline, or clinical practice guideline) is a document with the aim of guiding decisions and criteria regarding diagnosis, management, and treatment in specific areas of healthcare.
Sets forth guidelines for how the Trump administration will regulate the financial system. Read Order Read article ; January 30, 2017 Presidential Executive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs
National Guideline Clearinghouse [101] Evidence-based medicine integrates an individual doctor's exam and diagnostic skills for a specific patient, with the best available evidence from medical research. The doctor's expertise includes both diagnostic skills and consideration of individual patient's rights and preferences in making decisions ...