FP Report -- March 1999
Two Web sites might be helpful
- Can't find the guideline you've been looking for?
The National Guideline Clearinghouse is a public resource with a Web site intended to make evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related abstract, summary and comparison materials widely available to health care professionals.
This new site is a comprehensive database of materials produced by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) in partnership with the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Association of Health Plans (AAHP), and is updated weekly.
The NGC guidelines are not fixed protocols, but are intended for health care professionals and providers to consider. For each guideline included, NGC completes a guideline summary sheet that is submitted to the guideline developer(s) for initial and annual review.
The National Guideline Clearinghouse site is at www.guidelines.gov/ on the World Wide Web.
- The National Cancer Institute has a free software program for performing breast cancer risk assessments.
Available for both PC and Macintosh computers, the software is available to those who submit the sign-up sheet at http://cancertrials.nci.nih.gov/NCI_CANCER_TRIALS/zones/Forms/NciSignUp_3.html on the World Wide Web.
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