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 Guidelines and procedures offer NHS staff evidence-based recommendations for patient care and work practices. You can look for the latest evidence by searching the following resources. NHS Knowledge & Library Hub Search the Hub to search across hundreds of different NHS-based resources for guidelines and recommendations. Use the filters on the left-hand-side to focus your search results. The Hub is available in a separate instance for each of our supported NHS organisations. Check the NHS resources page for your version: NHS Resources for UHNM ; NHS Resources for North Staffs Combined Healthcare ; NHS Resources for GPs and the ICB . NICE Guidelines You can find a wealth of guidance on the NICE guidance website . This includes independently developed evidence-based recommendations. Browse the guidance by condition or disease or search across the website for the information you need. Royal Marsden Manual Online NHS nurses can access up-to-date, evidence-bas...

The previous guidance statement for reporting systematic reviews called the QUOROM Statement (QUality Of Reporting Of Meta-analyses) has recently been updated and renamed the PRISMA Statement (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses). This guidance is now freely available in the latest issue of Annal of Internal Medicine (also to be published in PLOS Medicine (with further explanation and elaboration ), BMJ (with explanation and elaboration ), Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (with explanation and elaboration ), and Open Medicine ). Access the full text article here . For further information on the rapid critical appraisal of systematic reviews, please book on to one of the library run training sessions . Specialist guidance on literature searching is also available on request.