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 ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- 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] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%