Clinicians from member organizations survey scientific literature and draft health care recommendations based on the best available evidence. These documents are subjected to an intensive review process that involves physicians and other health care professionals from ICSI member organizations before they are made available for general use.

Health Care Guidelines:

A health care guideline is an evidence-based document of how to prevent or manage a particular symptom or disease for an individual patient under normal circumstances, taking into account the preferences of the patient or his or her family. More than 40 guidelines have been developed and are updated regularly.

Order Sets and Protocols:

An order set is a set of standardized instructions for the management of a particular disease, condition, or procedural intervention, presented as a group of orders to be individually selected and signed by an authorized prescriber.

A protocol is a step-by-step statement of a procedure routinely used in the care of individual patients to assure that the intended effect is reliably achieved.

Fourteen order sets and 7 protocols have been developed to improve patient safety and consistency in health care delivery in the hospital setting.