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Find Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs)

CINAHL Complete

CINAHL® Complete is the world's most comprehensive nursing and allied health research database, providing full text for nearly 1,400 journals. CINAHL® Complete also provides indexing for more than 5,400 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 4.1 million records dating back to 1937.
JBI

This specialty database from the Joanna Briggs Institute spans a range of medical, nursing, and healthcare specialties and includes evidence summaries, systematic reviews, best practice guidelines, and more. JBI does not draw their contents from published journals like many of our database resources; they publish their own research. It is a vastly smaller database than CINAHL or Medline, but a great source of high-quality systematic reviews.

AAFP Clinical Practice Guidelines
From the American Academy of Family Physicians
AANA Professional Practice Manual
From the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology
AANN Clinical Practice Guidelines & EBP Reviews
From the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses
ACG's Gastroenterology Guidelines
From the American College of Gastroenterology
ACP Clinical Guidelines & Recommendations
From the American College of Physicians
ADA Standards of Care in Diabetes 2025
From the American Diabetes Association
AHA/ASA Guidelines & Statements
Medical guidelines and scientific statements from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association
American Urological Association Guidelines
ANA Clinical Practice Matieral
ASCO Guidelines
From the American Association of Clinical Oncology
CDC Guidelines & Guidance Library
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines and recommendations for healthcare settings.
ENA Clinical Practice Guidelines
From the Emergency Nurses Association
Guidelines International Network
Contains links to guidelines published or endorsed by GIN member organizations from across the globe.
IDSA Clinical Practice Guidelines
From the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Johns Hopkins Clinical Practice Guidelines
NASN Clinical Practice Guidelines
From the National Association of School Nurses
NCCIH Clinical Practice Guidelines
From the National Center for Complimentary & Integrative Health
NCCN Guidelines
From the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
RNAO Nursing Best Practice Guidelines
Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO) nursing guidelines.
VA/DOD Clinical Practice Guidelines
WHO Guidelines
Clinical practice and public health policy recommendations from the World Health Organization