Clinical Guideline Recommendations you can Trust

Janice Kaczmarek

Janice Kaczmarek, EPC Program Manager & Director, ECRI Guidelines Trust, ECRI Institute. When the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) decided to stop funding the National Guidelines Clearinghouse (NGC), ECRI Institute heard from numerous users of the site who were dismayed. ECRI had been the prime contractor for NGC for 20 years, and in that role, had worked with hundreds of guideline developers, providers and educational institutions who found NGC a valuable resource for moving evidence into practice. With the help of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, ECRI has created the new Guidelines Trust™ to address this need. Janice provides an overview of the current Guidelines Trust™ resources and their plans to create resources for clinical decision support and quality measure development.