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Clinical Practice Guidelines

Medical Guideline Clearinghouse and Library - Guideline Repository - Guideline Central

The repository from Guideline Central© provides quick access to summaries for over 2,600 clinical practice guidelines from more than thirty-five government agencies and medical societies encompassing a wide range of specialties and practice settings. Full text viewing and downloading are available for most guidelines, but a few require a subscription or institutional access to the journal.

Maintained by Guideline Central; updated monthly
McMaster GRADE Center

The McMaster University Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) Center offers a range of resources for those new to using guidelines to those interested in participating in guideline development. The GRADE learning hub has an extensive list of presentations and publications available on the development of guidelines and systematic reviews. The tools start with guideline terminology and the basics of the GRADE process and continue through building collaborations and all aspects of the writing and review process. The GIN-McMaster guideline toolkit provides detailed checklists and templates as well as an extensive on-line documents for reference. The toolkit is the work of a collaboration between the McMaster GRADE center and the Guidelines International Network (GIN). The website also features recent projects highlighting their collaboration with organizations updating or developing new guidelines. These may serve as useful examples to share with students and residents. 

Maintained by McMaster University; last updated in 2025
Overview of clinical practice guideline development, application to pharmacy practice, and roles for pharmacists

This paper, written by the members of the 2022 ACCP Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines, discusses the benefits of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs), reviews the guideline development process, discusses limitations in this process and in applying CPGs to patient care, identifies opportunities for improvement, provides considerations for educating learners and other health care professionals about CPGs, and examines the role of pharmacists in CPG development, dissemination, and implementation. It is an excellent resource for clinical pharmacists utilizing CPGs in their practice, as well as for students, residents, faculty, and preceptors discussing CPGs with learners and trainees.

JACCP; published in 2022

Stewardship Programs

Advancing Anticoagulation Stewardship: A Playbook

The playbook, developed by the Anticoagulation Forum (AC Forum) in partnership with the National Quality Forum (NQF) and funded by the FDA, provides updated guidance on implementing an anticoagulation stewardship program as well as recommendations for the maintenance and improvement of existing programs. By using the playbook, the AC Forum believes organizations can reduce preventable adverse drug events, improve patient care, and foster a culture of safety and excellence.

Maintained by the NQF National Quality Partners and the AC Forum; published in 2022
NQF: Opioid Stewardship Playbook

The National Quality Forum (NQF) Opioid Stewardship Playbook represents the work of the NQF member organizations as well as both public and private-sector stakeholders. More than forty experts developed the playbook to provide guidance for healthcare organizations and clinicians committed to appropriate pain management strategies and opioid stewardship across all healthcare settings. 

Maintained by NQF National Quality Partners; published in 2018
NQF: National Quality Partners™

Additional NQF playbooks on improving access for individuals with serious mental health, antibiotic stewardship in acute care, antibiotic stewardship in post-acute and long-term care, shared decision making, and supporting shared decision making for individuals with chronic and end-stage renal disease are available on this webpage. 

Maintained by NQF National Quality Partners; updated in 2025
Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship | Antibiotic Prescribing and Use | CDC

The CDC Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship site offers providers and healthcare facilities a set of key principles to guide appropriate antibiotic use that will improve outcomes and increase patient safety. There is specific guidance for implementing antibiotic stewardship teams in hospital settings, including small and critical access hospitals and outpatient settings, health departments, nursing homes, and resource-limited locations. In addition to the steps for implementation, this site also provides links to educational materials for patients, continuing education resources for healthcare providers, and tools for reporting data to the CDC.

Maintained by the CDC; last updated in 2024

Comprehensive Medication Management (CMM) Tools

Optimizingmeds.org

This resource, developed in conjunction with the Comprehensive Medication Management (CMM) in Primary Care study, provides clinicians with the tools and resources to effectively optimize their patients’ medications in a comprehensive, patient-centered, and team-based manner using the CMM process of care. In addition to guidance on implementing or transitioning to CMM, the platform provides tools for assessing and improving established CMM practices. The site also features an extensive resource library for students, residents, healthcare providers, and patients.

Maintained by the University of North Carolina Eschelman School of Pharmacy; last updated in 2025
Get the Medications Right Institute

The Get the Medications Right Institute (GTMRx) is a collaborative made up of professional associations, healthcare providers, and payors who come together to encourage practice transformation along with payment and policy reform to create and support a systematic, evidence-based approach to medication use. The GTMRx website shares the work of physicians, clinical pharmacists, and other team members committed to medication optimization who have developed tools to educate healthcare providers, patient groups, Congress, CMS, and payors of the value of CMM and precision medicine. The site provides a wide range of resources for clinical pharmacists already utilizing or planning to implement CMM, including use cases describing CMM in a variety of practice settings. 

Maintained by the GTMRx Institute; updated monthly
ACCP Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Toolkit

This web-based toolkit, developed by members of the 2023 Task Force on DEIA, includes resources for clinical pharmacists, trainees, and students as a part of ACCP’s commitment to build inclusive values into clinical pharmacy practice, education, and research. It includes over one hundred resources organized by topic, setting, and format. 

Maintained by the ACCP DEIA Committee; last updated in 2024
NCICLE Teaming Resource Compendium

To facilitate implementation of the Pathways to Excellence in CLEs, NCICLE has initiated an annual call for resources from its member organizations focused on one of the six pathways. The NCICLE Teaming Resource Compendium includes resources organizations can use to support and promote interprofessional team development and continued quality improvement. The Teaming Resource Compendium includes over 40 resources such as journal articles, webinars, learning modules, and toolkits that have been linked or posted to the NCICLE.org website. The wide-ranging submissions from the NCICLE member organizations demonstrate the collective power of joining forces toward a common goal. 

Maintained by NCICLE; published in 2024
NCICLE Pathways to Excellence

The National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment (NCICLE) consists of forty-one member organizations representing healthcare accrediting bodies and professional associations. ACCP is a member organization of NCICLE and participates in their work. The NCICLE Pathways to Excellence document is a tool to facilitate discussions that will lead to optimizing the clinical learning environment for patients as well as all members of the healthcare team, with a focus on the importance of the interface between learners and health care settings across the continuum of patient care. Based on the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) process utilized by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) to aid in determining reaccreditation, the six pathways include patient safety, health care quality, teaming, supervision, wellbeing, and professionalism. 

Maintained by NCICLE; published in 2021
NCICLE Well-being Resource Compendium

The second resource compendium from NCICLE provides tools related to the pathway on well-being and resilience. The Well-being Resource Compendium includes over thirty resources, with examples from all health care professions represented in NCICLE. The resources include evidence-based articles, webinars, learning modules, and toolkits. The compendium is posted on the NCICLE.org website. ACCP members are encouraged to explore the compendium and NCICLE website and share it with colleagues. By prioritizing well-being, we can continue to create environments where healthcare professionals and learners thrive. 

Maintained by NCICLE; published in 2025

ACCP Publications on Optimal Pharmacist to Patient Ratios

Identifying ideal pharmacist-to-patient ratios for the successful provision of clinical pharmacy services JACCP

JACCP, published in 2024
PHarmacist avoidance or reductions in medical costs in CRITically ill adults rounding with one SERVICE compared to two or more services: PHARM-CRIT-SERVICE

JACCP, published in 2023
Expansion of around the clock critical care and emergency medicine clinical pharmacy services at a large urban academic medical center

JACCP, published in 2023
A survey of critical care pharmacists to patient ratios and practice characteristics in intensive care units

JACCP; published in 2019
2023 Update to the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Pharmacotherapy Didactic Curriculum Toolkit

The ACCP didactic curriculum toolkit is used by many colleges and schools of pharmacy as a guide for curricular development and revision since its inaugural publication in 2009. It is revised every 3 years by the ACCP Publications Committee to incorporate changes in pharmacy practice, advances in therapeutics, and updates in accreditation standards and professional competencies. 

JACCP; published in 2024
BPS Student Toolkit

The Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) has released a new resource for students interested in learning more about board certification. Faculty members and preceptors are encouraged to share these sources with their students or residents. The toolkit includes infographics, podcasts, and blogs targeted at students as well as a link to request a virtual presentation for students. 

Maintained by BPS; last updated in 2024

ACCP Publications on Student and Resident Research

Solid organ transplant residency research publication rates and characteristics associated with successful publication

JACCP, published in 2024
Best practices for supporting and improving pharmacy resident research and quality improvement projects

JACCP, published in 2023
How-to guide for overcoming barriers of research and scholarship training in Pharm.D. and pharmacy residency programs

JACCP, published in 2021