Clinical best practice

This section contains guidelines, reviews and reports offering information and advice for providers on the latest clinical best practice.

ACC Review

Copies of ACC Review (a topic-based clinical summary of best practice) are available via this page.

Spinal cord injury guidelines

These guidelines have been developed for assessors, rehabilitation service providers and ACC staff, who work with clients who have a significant impairment due to a traumatic injury to the spinal cord.

Interventional Pain Management

The Interventional Pain Management (IPM) guidance presents evidence based recommendations on a wide range of procedures to help practitioners and patients make informed decisions about managing persistent pain.

Case studies

Copies of Treatment Injury Case Study (a case-study based report with expert commentary on treatment injuries) are available via this page.

Treatment profiles

The treatment profiles are guides to the treatment and rehabilitation services ACC expects a practitioner to provide to a client for a particular injury. They describe current ‘good practice’ and what outcomes should be achieved.

Evidence Based Healthcare reports

The Evidence Based Healthcare (EBH) Group produces several different kinds of reports for ACC, including systematic reviews of the research literature and evidence based purchasing guidance.

Clinical guidelines

Guideline development is a systematic process that involves reviewing evidence, consulting clinical experts and working with multidisciplinary advisory groups. The Evidence Based Healthcare (EBH) Group has developed a set of clinical guidelines to help health professionals, funders and patients make informed decisions about health care.

Last updated: 27July2009