I forward this from a New Zealand HTA list of which I am a member. It
concerns an important new resource for evidence based practice.
Moral: If you want to find out what is happening in the States try
New Zealand:-)
Site contains numerous details of guidelines and allows you to
compare validity and process measures.
Thanks to Ray Kirk for the original posting.
Andrew
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 17:00:56 +1300
To: [log in to unmask]
From: Ray Kirk <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: National guideline clearinghouse
Hi
The National Guideline Clearinghouse is up and running. The URL address is:
http://www.guidelines.gov/
Cheers
Ray
Dr Ray Kirk
Director
NZHTA
The Clearing House for Health Outcomes and Health Technology Assessment
Department of Public Health & General Practice
Christchurch School of Medicine, University of Otago
PO Box 4345, Christchurch, New Zealand
phone: (03) 3641145 fax: (03) 3641152
email: [log in to unmask]
Internet: http://nzhta.chmeds.ac.nz/
Andrew Booth BA MSc Dip Lib ALA
Director of Information Resources
School of Health & Related Research (ScHARR)
Regent Court
30 Regent Street
SHEFFIELD
S1 4DA
Tel: 0114 222 5420 or 5214 Fax: 0114 272 4095
The author of Netting the Evidence:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/netting.html
and Trawling the Net:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/trawling.html
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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