NGC Guideline Summaries

**Overview**
This data package contains summaries of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines which are intended to optimize patient care that is informed by a systematic review of evidence and an assessment of the benefits and harms of alternative care options.

**Description**
NGC (National Guideline Clearinghouse) data package consists of summaries containing information from 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 supports AHRQ's mission to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable by providing objective, detailed information on clinical practice guidelines, and to further their dissemination, implementation, and use in order to inform health care decisions.

**Benefits**
- National guideline clearinghouse (ngc) provides physicians and other health care 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.

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**Included Datasets**
- [Clinical Practice Guideline Summaries](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/clinical-practice-guideline-summaries)
- This dataset contains summaries of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Clinical practice guidelines are statements that include recommendations intended to optimize patient care that is informed by a systematic review of evidence and an assessment of the benefits and harms of alternative care options.

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