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TAKE NOTICE: This Web site, AHRQ’s National Guideline Clearinghouse,
will not be available after July 16, 2018.

Federal funding through AHRQ will no longer be available to support the NGC as of that date. For additional information, read our full announcement.

We will continue to post summaries of new and updated evidence-based clinical practice guidelines until July 2, 2018. For any questions, please contact Mary Nix, mary.nix@ahrq.hhs.gov.

Guideline Summaries

Guidelines are organized by clinical specialty.

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Guideline Syntheses

Systematic comparisons of areas of agreement and disagreement among selected guidelines addressing similar topics. View All

Expert Commentaries

Expert insight on guidelines and other relevant issues. View All

June 25, 2018

Guideline Summaries

  • New American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Guidelines on management of osteoarthritis of the hip
  • Updated American College of Radiology Appropriateness Criteria® Guidelines on:
    • Chronic Ankle Pain
    • First Trimester Vaginal Bleeding
    • Headache — Child
    • Multiple Gestations
    • Orbits, Vision and Visual Loss
    • Ovarian Cancer Screening
    • Pretreatment Staging of Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer
    • Post-treatment Follow-up of Prostate Cancer
    • Radiologic Management of Uterine Leiomyomas
    • Soft-tissue Masses

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June 25, 2018

Guideline Submission Notice

NGC Web site

Funding to support AHRQ's NGC contract ends on July 16, 2018. To allow time for summaries and NEATS assessments to be posted to the NGC Web site by July 2018, guidelines are no longer being accepted for inclusion. Additional information will be posted when AHRQ can announce next steps for NGC. In the meantime, contact Mary.Nix@ahrq.hhs.gov.

G-I-N Conference

Conference News

The Guidelines International Network (G-I-N) 2018 Conference will take place from September 11-14, 2018 in Manchester. The theme is "Why We Do What We Do: The Purpose and Impact of Guidelines." Registration is open External Web Site Policy. For more information, visit the G-I-N Conference Web site External Web Site Policy.

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About NGC

NGC supports AHRQ's mission to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable by providing objective, detailed information on clinical practice guidelines, and to further their dissemination, implementation, and use in order to inform health care decisions.