Search Everything
Your best bet for finding clinical practice guidelines is to use the Search Everything box on the library homepage and add a search term of guidelines to your search. Example search: statins AND "heart disease" AND guidelines.
You also use filters in a few of our databases to find guidelines. Below are instructions for databases with guideline filters.
Databases with Guideline Filters
CINAHL with Full Text
Database - CINAHL with Full TextCINAHL with Full Text is the world’s largest source of full text for nursing and allied health journals and provides full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL.
To find guidelines in this database, follow the steps below.
- Select the database link above. This will take you directly to the advanced search page.
- Enter your keywords in the search box.
- Move down to Limit Your Results.
- Select Practice Guidelines under the Publication Type menu, as shown in the image below, and select Search.

DynaMed Plus
Database - DynaMedDynaMed is the clinical reference tool that clinicians go to for answers. Look to DynaMed for the most current, evidence-based information available.
To find guidelines in this database, follow the steps below.
- Select the database link above.
- Enter your keywords in the search box.
- Select the magnifying glass to search.
- Select the title of the result that best identifies your topic.
- Select Guidelines and Resources in the left-hand navigation menu.
- At the top of the results, hover over the menu titled In this Section, and select the the link for guidelines. You can expand the guidelines section to see them broken down by country, as shown in the image below.

Medline Complete
Database - Medline Complete from EBSCOThe largest companion to the MEDLINE index, this full-text database provides access to top-tier biomedical and health journals. Covering a wide range of subjects, it is an essential resource for doctors, nurses, health professionals and researchers engaged in clinical care, public health and health policy development.
To find guidelines in this database, follow the steps below.
- Select the database link above. This will take you directly to the advanced search page.
- Enter your keywords in the search box.
- Move down to Limit Your Results.
- Select Guideline under the Publication Type menu, as shown in the image below, and select Search.
PubMed
Database - PubMedPubMed comprises more than 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
To find guidelines in this database, follow the steps below.
- Select the database link above.
- Enter your keywords in the search box.
- Select Search.
- Move down and select Additional Filters on the left-hand side of the search results.
- Select Article Type in the left-hand navigation menu.
- Select Practice Guideline from the menu, as shown in the image below, and select Show.