Guideline Clearinghouse
The iCAHE Guideline Clearinghouse is a resource for Allied Health focused Clinical Guidelines
What is a Clinical Guideline?
- Clinical Guidelines bring together the best available research evidence
- They help guide clinicians in providing standardised care for patients
- They provide benchmarks for best-practice.
- They may be applicable to a number of allied health disciplines.
What does a Clinical Guideline look like?
- Clinical Guideline documents usually contain numerous recommendations.
- These recommendations relate to specific elements of care for a particular clinical condition.
- Recommendations are linked to underlying research evidence.
How do I know if a Clinical Guideline is of good quality?
- The quality of Clinical Guidelines is dependant on their currency and the rigor with which they have been developed.
- High quality guidelines are developed using evidence-based methodologies such as those recommended by the National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC).
- The iCAHE guideline checklist can provide clinicians with a quick way of appraising the quality of a clinical guideline. It consists of 14 questions and can be either used as an overall guide or a total score.
- Download a copy of the iCAHE Guideline Checklist (PDF 214KB).
- A good clinical guideline should recommend the most appropriate method to implement its recommendations. For further information, visit Dr. Saravana Kumar's website which is dedicated to the implementation of clinical guidelines: Implementation Central.
iCAHE Guideline Clearinghouse
If you have a relevant allied health clinical guideline that you would like to see included in this list please contact iCAHE's Julie Luker or Zuzana Machotka.
Health Conditions
- Acute Stroke
- Stroke Rehabilitation & Recovery
- Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Acute Low Back Pain
- Chronic Low Back Pain
- Low Back Pain Prevention
- Pelvic Girdle Pain
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