Practice Guidelines

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• Databases and Web sites
• Selected chiropractic guidelines and guideline developers
• Selected reading (Open Access)

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Databases and Web sites

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
• CMA Infobase: Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Clinical Practice Guidelines Online [AHQR: Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality]
• Advancing the Use of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines [GAC: Guidelines Advisory Committee, Ontario]

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Selected chiropractic guidelines and guideline developers

• CCA/CFCRB-CPG.  Practice guide for the management of whiplash-associated disorders in adults.  2010 June.    PDF
• CCA/CFCRB-CPG.Chiropractic clinical practice guideline: evidence-based treatment of adult neck pain not due to whiplash. J Can Chiropr Assoc 2005; 49(3):160-209. HTML PDF
• IHS Classification ICHD-II [International Classification of Headache Disorders. International Headache Society. 2nd edtion]
• CCGPC: Council on Chiropractic Guidelines and Practice Parameters Download Articles
• New Zealand Guidelines Group. New Zealand acute low back pain guide: incorporating the Guide to assessing psychosocial yellow flags in acute low back pain. Wellington, New Zealand: Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), 2004.
• Annotated Bibliographies from the National Guideline Clearinghouse

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Selected reading (Open Access)

Canadian Chiropractic Association/Canadian Federation of Chiropractic Regulatory Boards Clinical Practice Guidelines (CCA/CFCRB-CPG). A clinical practice guideline update from the CCA/CFCREAB-CPG. J Can Chiropr Assoc 2008 Mar;52(1):7-11. PubMed Record

Ceccato NE, Ferris LE, Manuel D, Grimshaw JM. Adopting health behavior change theory throughout the clinical practice guideline process. J Contin Educ Health Prof 2007 Fall;27(4):201-7.   PubMed Record

Davis DA, Taylor-Vaisey A. Translating guidelines into practice. A systematic review of theoretic concepts, practical experience and research evidence in the adoption of clinical practice guidelines. CMAJ 1997 Aug 15;157(4):408-16. PubMed Record

Gagliardi AR, Brouwers MC, Palda VA, Lemieux-Charles L, Grimshaw JM. An exploration of how guideline developer capacity and guideline actionability influence implementation and adoption: Study protocol. Implement Sci 2009 Jul 2;4(1):36. PubMed Record

Improving the use of research evidence in guideline development
These reviews published in the journal Health Research Policy and Systems were prepared as background for advice from the World Health Organization Advisory Committee on Health Research [ACHR] to WHO on ways of improving the use of research evidence in guideline development.

Nuckols TK, Lim YW, Wynn BO, Mattke S, MacLean CH, Harber P, Brook RH, Wallace P, Garland RH, Asch S. Rigorous development does not ensure that guidelines are acceptable to a panel of knowledgeable providers. J Gen Intern Med 2008 Jan;23(1):37-44. PubMed Record

Selected articles on guidelines from the journal Implementation Science