Guidelines, Recommendations and Evidence-based Practices Resource Links

Healthy People 2020 is the prevention agenda for the Nation.

The Guidelines were developed to provide a framework of feasible core functions for state oral health programs.  This document includes sections on: Current Oral Health Issues, Capacity and Infrastructure, a listing of the Essential Public Health Services to Promote Oral Health in the United States, and Examples of Essential Public Health Activities.

Provides recommendations on population-based interventions to promote health and to prevent disease, injury, disability, and premature death, appropriate for use by communities and healthcare systems.

The Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals are a set of skills desirable for a broad practice of public health.

The National Maternal & Child Oral Health Resource Center (OHRC) collects and shares information about a variety of resources, including materials such as standards, guidelines, curricula, teaching guides, manuals, policies, and reports. ASTDD is collaborating with OHRC to compile resource materials related to Best Practice Approaches for state & community oral health programs.

AMCHP defines "best practices" as a continuum of practices, programs and plicies that range from emerging to promising to those that have been extensively evaluated and proven to be effective.

The What's Working in Chronic Disease Prevention and Control database catalogs state/territory/tribal efforts to improve chronic disease prevention and control & includes both state initiatives and success stories.

• Initiatives are detailed descriptions of state work, with or without final results.
• Success stories are one-page summaries of state work with results.

The Centre for Evidence-Based Dentistry is an independent body whose aim is to promote evidence based dentistry world-wide. The Centre for Evidence-Based Dentistry website includes information about the Centre, news of forthcoming events, and a host of links to evidence-based tools and resources.

The CEBM in Oxford, UK aims to develop, teach and promote evidence-based health care and provide support and resources to doctors and health professionals to help maintain the highest standards of medicine.

The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) was established in January 1994 to provide the NHS with important information on the effectiveness of treatments and the delivery and organization of health care. CRD, by offering rigorous and systematic reviews on selected topics, a database of good quality reviews and an information service, helps to promote research-based practice in the NHS.

The Cochrane Library is a pioneering resource which was initiated by the Cochrane Collaboration. The collaboration was formed to prepare, maintain and disseminate reviews of the effects of healthcare interventions, as well as assessing evidence related to prevention strategies and treatment. The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, including The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Abstracts of reviews can be viewed online free of charge.

NICE is the independent organization responsible for providing national guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention and treatment of ill health. Its role is to provide patients, health professionals and the public with authoritative, robust and reliable guidance on current "best practice." The guidance will cover both individual health technologies and the clinical management of specific conditions.

This specialized search is intended for clinicians and has built-in search filters. Four study categories - therapy, diagnosis, etiology, prognosis - are provided, and you may indicate whether you wish your search to be more sensitive (i.e., include most relevant articles but probably including some less relevant ones) or more specific (i.e. including mostly relevant articles but probably omit a few).