title: Surfing the best practice guidelines: national clinical guideline clearinghouse in development.
abstract: The growth in development and usage of clinical guidelines during the last five years has been remarkable. Not only are health care practitioners reaching for what's deemed to be the best in protocols and practice, consumers, too, are looking toward standards and guidelines as they become more educated about the quality and quantity of health care services they should be receiving.
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016389:Maternal-Child Nursing; D009729:Nursing / Q000592:standards; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D016387:Women's Health