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You are connected to the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC), a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NGC was originally created by AHRQ in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans (now America's Health Insurance Plans [AHIP]). Click on About NGC to learn more about us.
NGC offers Syntheses of selected guidelines that cover similar topic areas, and Expert Commentary on issues of interest and importance to the clinical guideline community.
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Notice to our Users - We've Resumed PublishingWe are pleased to announce that the National Guideline Clearinghouse and the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse have completed the transition to a new content management system. We have resumed publishing new/updated content. As noted previously, this new system will serve as the foundation for the redesigned Web sites to be launched next year. We appreciate your patience over the past few weeks as we transitioned to our new system. |
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Conference News
The 6th annual Guidelines International Network (G-I-N) conference, will be held November 1-4, 2009 in Lisbon, Portugal. Register online now. The theme of the conference is "Evidence Translation in Different Countries."
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