Clinical Guidelines provide expert guidance on diagnosis, treatment and prevention in healthcare, and are freely available. In addition to these collections, practitioners should check for guidelines provided by professional bodies within their own clinical specialty.
National Clinical Guidelines Ireland
NICE - guidance from the UK National Institute for Clinical Excellence
SIGN - Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
The Guidelines International Network (G-I-N) - development of guidelines and their application into practice.
Clinical summary resources collate expert, peer-reviewed content from journals, books and other sources to provide summaries of clinical conditions with an overview of diagnosis and management.
BMJ Best Practice – Clinical Summaries
https://bestpractice.bmj.com/ (Free access in the Republic of Ireland is funded by the Health Service Executive Library)
BMJ Best Practice provides the latest evidence-based research, guidelines and expert opinion to offer step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention. The Specialties section contains links to international clinical guidelines, and the Evidence section provides links to Cochrane Clinical Answers.