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New Features Now Available on the NGC Web Site!
2009
- The AHRQ Evidence Reports page provides a list and links to various reports produced under AHRQ's Evidence-based Practice Program and Effective Health Care Program.
2008
- A new printer-friendly icon has been added to every guideline summary making it even easier to print.
- Meet the NGC/NQMC Expert Panel.
- The Submit Guidelines page provides the information necessary to submit guidelines for inclusion in NGC.
- The goal of the Expert Commentary feature is improvement of the dissemination and uptake of evidence-based health information.
- Meet the NGC/NQMC Editorial Board.
2005
- Use the related resource browse to find guidelines with associated quality measures.
- Enhanced NGC Browse feature now provides additional ways to browse content including the Guideline Index, Guidelines In Progress, and Guideline Archive.
- Enhanced Guidelines in Progress page highlights submissions that have added to the work queue within the last two weeks.
- Enhanced Organization Browse feature
allows users to search the content within a specific organization.
- Enhanced search results page includes a limit feature to narrow searches as well as a link to other guidelines by a specific developer; a list of Quick Search Tips is also available
- Newly organized Guideline Archive
and What's New Archive pages
- New and improved Contact page
- A new FDA Warning/Regulatory Alert field that identifies important drug and/or device warnings
released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or other official regulatory bodies.
2004
2003
- PDA downloads for Palm-based PDAs
- Pocket PCs can now directly access the entire site in real time using Pocket IE or as downloaded Web pages.
- Enhanced Summary content, including the following new fields:
- Methods used to Formulate the Recommendations
- Rating Scheme for the Strength of the Recommendations
- References Supporting the Major Recommendations
- Contraindications
- Financial Disclosures
- IOM National Healthcare Quality Report categories
- And, updates to a number of existing fields
- Enhanced Brief and Complete Summary formats which utilize a logical grouping of fields with
related content, and a table of contents
- Enhanced Detailed Search feature
which allows users to filter searches by the methodology and IOM categories
- Enhanced Guideline
Tabular Comparison feature which includes many of the new fields added to the NGC summary
- A Glossary of all the controlled vocabulary terms
utilized in the NGC Summary
- Web developer tools such as RSS feeds of the entire inventory of NGC
content, and a new Search Form feature which
offers Web developers the ability to create their own unique search interfaces with the NGC Web site.