... Ser-vice on Clinical Practice Guidelines, Institute of Medicine, 1990). The Institute ofMedicine task force has also described characteristics of a “good” guideline (Instituteof Medicine, 1990). ... difference4. Links to full-text guidelines, where available, and/or ordering information forprint copies5. An electronic forum, NGC-L, for exchanging information on clinical practice guidelines, their ... decision making by synthesizing the treatment literature into ausable form. The following sections describe these parameters.Evidence-Based Clinical Practice GuidelinesEvidence-based clinical practice...