Overview

Rating:
3.00
(28)
Version:
6.1.1
Last updated: 2026-07-01
Ranking
#298,433 ▼ 3,257
Overall

Features & Capabilities

Guideline Central, the world’s largest repository of clinical practice guidelines, can now be easily accessed in our new guidelines app. With clinical practice guidelines and clinical decision-support tools, Guideline Central provides healthcare professionals thousands of quick access resources to help improve patient outcomes.   Choose from thousands of official medical association guidelines representing all of the main specialties and therapeutic areas. These are official society guidelines, gathered and condensed into a quick reference format that is current, practical and portable.   The Guideline Central app offers over 1,500 guideline summaries, as well as hundreds of clinical guideline pocket guides that were developed with authoring medical associations. In addition to clinical practice guidelines, the app also includes other frequently used clinical reference resources.

Quick reference guideline tools include:

  • Guideline Pocket Guides: Highly curated clinical guidelines-based resource that summarizes key recommendations, figures, tables and more into a practical, concise format for usage at point of need.
  • Guideline Summaries: Quick-access to the graded recommendations from 1,000+ clinical practice guidelines, along with meta-data and links to the full text guideline on the society journal or website.
  • Clinical Calculators: A collection of mobile optimized clinical calculators for health care professionals
  • Drug Information: Up to date medication information, drug monographs, and more.
  • Clinical Trials: Search for ongoing clinical trials across the country, or for posted results from trials that have been completed.
  • USPSTF Preventive Services:  Get the most updated USPSTF preventive service recommendations to provide the best health care possible.
  • MEDLINE / PubMed Search: Mobile optimized search of the world's largest abstract and citation database with searchable index of biomedical literature from MEDLINE and PubMed.

Some of the critical features of the Guideline Central App are:

  • Concise clinical guideline recommendations
  • Easy navigation to critical information
  • Find within content and search across sources
  • Updates when new guidelines are released
  • Online and offline functionality
  • Share, store and take notes for frequently accessed guidelines

  Guideline Central can easily fit the on the job needs of various professionals in Health Sciences including:

  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Pharmacists
  • Allied clinicians and caregivers
  • Medical students
  • Clinical educators
  • Quality managers
  • Coding and billing professionals
  • Healthcare administrators

Download the Guideline Central App to get access to clinical practice guideline database which meets a variety of clinical guideline information for the purposes of:

  • Quick refresher or point of care clinical reference
  • Clinical decision support
  • Assessment, screening, diagnosis, management, treatment and prevention
  • Teaching
  • Research
  • And more

For the concise and desired guideline information by specialty, society, medical condition and for other quick reference tools, there is no other clinical app like Guideline Central.

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

Guideline Central customer support is available to help get the app up and running in short time in case of any technical issues. Societies or institutions who are interested in having their guidelines included within our platform are welcome to reach us out any time.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
International Guidelines Center, Inc
Rating:
3.00
(28)
Version:
6.1.1 Last updated: 2026-07-01
Version code:
887564864
Creation date:
2013-04-05
Compatible devices:
Size:
18.61MB
URLs:
Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:
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Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-07-17
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Contact the developer

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Developed by:
International Guidelines Center, Inc
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/guideline-central-legacy/id567695579
Website:
https://www.guidelinecentral.com/solutions/mobile-and-web-apps/

User Reviews

Users generally praise Guideline Central for offering a comprehensive, easy-to-use guideline library and a fast, bedside-friendly search, especially after the latest update. However, multiple reviews note severe stability issues: freezing, crashes, and slow loading, often after updates. Problems span search and library management (blank or non-deletable items, misordered purchases) and content display (unreadable tables, truncated sections). Overall sentiment is divided: the app can be a powerful quick-reference when it works, but ongoing bugs and update-related changes have caused frustration and inconsistent reliability.
Pros
  • Updated interface is fast, modern, and more user-friendly.
  • Quick, bedside-friendly access with fast search.
  • Comprehensive library of guidelines with broad content.
  • Generally easy to navigate and read content.
Cons
  • Frequent stability issues: freezing, crashes, and slow loading.
  • Update-related instability: new interface caused glitches, needed sign-in, and feels less pocket-card-like.
  • Search and library problems: blank search areas, inability to delete items, and purchased guidelines not reliably shown.
  • Content display problems: unreadable tables and truncated content.
Recent reviews
This app doesn’t even seem finished? The search-by-specialty and by-organization areas are blank with no options to select. When you do find a guideline, it’s poorly reproduced from the versions you’d find online (hosted on Guideline Central’s own website). Tables are unreadable. Sections sometime just cut off in the middle and you can’t read the rest.
by Be*****, 2026-02-02

Website significantly better experience at this point compared to website. App response is delayed and sluggish
by cf*****, 2024-10-10
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