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Dear Colleagues, Two new Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports -- Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews and Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust -- were released last week and are expected to establish the standards for conducting systematic reviews (SRs) of scientific evidence and developing evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) in the U.S. Below is information you may be interested in. Both reports are available to read at no charge at the following websites: IOM Systematic Review Standards: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13059 IOM Clinical Practice Guideline Standards Report: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13058 If you would like to purchase the reports, as a special offer to JISC listserv members, National Academies Press, the publisher for the IOM, is offering a 25% discount off the list price for print or electronic versions (PDF) of either the prepublication, which is available now, or the forthcoming final versions of these books. Please enter promotional code FJISC in the NAP shopping cart to take advantage of the discount. NAP also offers examination copies of titles for professors considering a title for course adoption. To request an examination copy, please visit this link: https://cart.nap.edu/cart/exam_copy.html In the meantime, I have attached the PDFs of the report brief and the list of standards for both publications. March 29, 2011 Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust Prepublication Available Advances in medical, biomedical and health services research have reduced the level of uncertainty in clinical practice. Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) compliment this progress by establishing standards of care backed by strong scientific evidence. CPGs... Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews Prepublication Available Healthcare decision makers in search of reliable information comparing health interventions increasingly turn to systematic reviews for the best summary of the evidence. Systematic reviews identify, select, assess, and synthesize the findings of similar but... Regards, Marguerite Marguerite A. Koster, MA, MFT Practice Leader Medical Technology Assessment & Guidelines Kaiser Permanente Southern California 393 E. Walnut St., 6th Floor, Pasadena, CA 91188 NOTICE TO RECIPIENT: If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are prohibited from sharing, copying, or otherwise using or disclosing its contents. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and permanently delete this e-mail and any attachments without reading, forwarding or saving them. Thank you.