The National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) is a comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents. 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]).
The NGC Mission is to provide physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, health care providers, health plans, integrated delivery systems, purchasers and others an accessible mechanism for obtaining objective, detailed information on clinical practice guidelines and to further their dissemination, implementation and use.
This is a very important site as some of our chiropractic guidelines are litsed there http://www.ngc.gov/search/searchresults.aspx?Type=3&txtSearch=chiropractic&num=20. Becoming familar with the purpose of this site and who had input with it and what is the criteria for guideline submission can be very important in documentation.
