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You are connected to the National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC™), a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NGC was originally created by AHRQ in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans (now America's Health Insurance Plans [AHIP]). Click on About NGC to learn more about us.

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NGC News

New/updated AACE, ESC, ICSI, IDSA, Kaiser, and Singapore MOH guidelines. Go to "What's New This Week."

NGC Web Site Enhancement: We now identify guidelines that have been submitted to the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) that are currently in our work queue. See the Guidelines In Progress page for details.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) recently released "Practice Guidelines for the Management of Bacterial Meningitis."

Look for practical, ready-to-use tools for measuring and improving the quality of health care in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ's) QualityTools Web site.

Look for Quality Measures in AHRQ's National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC).

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