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National Guideline Clearinghouse. National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) was a database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents started in 1998. [1]
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
In the US, the National Guideline Clearinghouse maintains a catalog of high-quality guidelines published by various health and medical associations. In the United Kingdom , clinical practice guidelines are published primarily by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).
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 ...
Days before he retires as chairman of the influential U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Democrat Ben Cardin acknowledged worries about human rights being less of a U.S. priority during ...
In the same year, a National Guideline Clearinghouse that followed the principles of evidence-based policies was created by AHRQ, the AMA, and the American Association of Health Plans (now America's Health Insurance Plans). [48] In 1999, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) was created in the UK. [49]