LibGuides: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: Clinical Guidelines & Tools

Clinical Guidelines & Tools

AGREE Collaboration - Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation

On this page, you will find CPGs and resources for making differential diagnoses. Scroll down for clinical tools such as calculators and risk assessors.

Clinical Practice Guidelines

American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines
Guidelines for the treatment of various psychiatric disorders.
Canadian Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Management and Prevention of Obesity in Adults and Children (PDF from CMAJ)
Comprehensive publication with obesity prevention and treatment guidelines.
CMA Infobase
Clinical practice guidelines from the Canadian Medical Association.
Guidelines Advisory Committee of Ontario
GAC has archived its existing rated and endorsed guidelines.

National Guidelines Clearinghouse This link opens in a new window
The National Guideline Clearinghouse? (NGC) is a comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents produced by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) (formerly 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).

Clinical Tools

Body Surface Area and BMI calculator
Quickly calculate BSA and BMI using several different units of measurement.
ICD-9-CM
ICD-9-CM is the official system of assigning codes to diagnoses and procedures associated with hospital utilization in the United States. The ICD-9 is used to code and classify mortality data from death certificates.
MDCalc
A repository of web-based calculators for formulas and scores.
EBMcalc (formerly MedCalc3000)
From Stat!Ref, scroll down and select EBMcalc EBMcalc is a unique computerized medical reference and tool set. EBMcalc encompasses a wide array of pertinent medical formulae, clinical criteria sets and decision tree analysis tools used everyday by clinicians, medical educators, nurses and health care students of all types.
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This resource also has interactive clinical criteria and decision trees.
National Center for Emergency Medicine Informatics Calculators, Scores, and Algorithms
The NCEMI has created useful online calculators. Decision rules, scores, and algorithms are also provided. Best viewed in IE, these links are along the right-hand side of the page, under the images section. Page does not display in Firefox.
Weights and Measures conversion calculator
Convert volumes, weights, lengths, and Celsius and Fahrenheit.