Guidelines

German guidelines are published by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany (AWMF). They are divided into three (or four) classes - see "Classification" in the Guideline Glossary of AWMF and ÄZQ, under revision 4/2020). In addition to the long version, there may be an abridged version, the guideline report (methodological approach) and a patient guideline in PDF format that can be understood by laypersons; among other things, the status and period of validity are noted as well as ongoing revisions. Registered guideline projects are also listed.

National Care Guidelines

The German Medical Association, the Bundesärztekammer and the AWMF publish the National Care Guidelines in the NVL programme (in German).

Oncology Guidelines Programme

The German Cancer Aid, the German Cancer Society and the AWMF jointly organize the OL program (in German).

England

The English National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) provides its own guideline summaries in HTML, PDF and ePub format under NICE Guidance. The Full guidelines and Search strategies are also linked.

Guidelines International Network

Further international guidelines are searchable at the Guidelines International Network (G-I-N) in the International Guideline Library, but the hits in the detailed view are only accessible to paying members, see Membership fees for organizations and individuals.

In PubMed there are the "Article type" filters after the search

• "Guideline" (generic term of "Practice Guideline") and
• "Consensus Development Conference",

but usually the long versions of the guidelines are not published in journals.