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ONCOLINE:an Online Database for Consultation of

Cancer Clinical Practice Guidelines

Sonja Kersten

The Dutch Association of Comprehensive Cancer CentresUtrecht, The Netherlands

s.kersten@vikc.nl

Oncoline contains

– Clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosisand treatment of cancer(in Dutch and English)

– Practice guidelines for palliative care– Practice guidelines for oncology nursing care– Practice guidelines for oncology dietary care

Functionalities

– User friendly navigation (categorised evidence basedguidelines)

– Full text search engine– References linked to online articles or abstracts in

Medline– All guidelines can be downloaded for PDA, printed,

saved and e-mailed.– Online development of guidelines (forum)

let’s go to www.oncoline.nl

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www.oncoline.nl Future

- Development of decision aids fordiagnosis and treatment (based on theguidelines)

- Other health care organisations will startto work with the same system

- New (English) guidelines and updates ofguidelines

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Conclusion

Oncoline proves to be valuable in providinghealth professionals with up-to-date CPG’s.

www.oncoline.nl/english