Implementing clinical practice guidelines: time to assess it

Developing and implementing clinical practice guidelines.

Correspondence to: Dr J Grimshaw, Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Drew Kay Wing, Polwarth Building, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB9 2ZD The Effective Health Care bulletins have concentrated on providing systematic reviews of the research evidence on clinical and cost effectiveness to help inform decision makers and clinicians in the NHS. However, providing information by itsel...

Soft Systems Methodology for Implementing Clinical Practice Guidelines in A General Hospital: A study protocol

Background: It is notoriously challenging to implement evidence-based care and to update and improve health care policy. Adhering to evidence-based Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) serves as the driving force behind making decisions based on the best evidence and making efforts for improving the quality of patient care and outcomes. Despite requiring Iranian hospitals to implement CPGs in Ja...

Practice guidelines and clinical risk assessment models: is it time to reform?

BACKGROUND Clinical practice guidelines and Risk Assessment Models (RAMs) are some useful tools to bring medical evidences into our daily clinical practice. Despite the improvement over the time, they still have some shortcomings. DISCUSSION One of these shortcomings is the arbitrary cutoffs used in these tools to facilitate the decision making process. This problem is to some extent due to t...

Using the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation II to assess clinical practice guidelines.

Pharmacogenetic testing: time for clinical practice guidelines.

Our knowledge regarding genetic factors that affect drug effectiveness and adverse drug reactions is continuously increasing, and a growing number of pharmacogenetic gene– drug interactions are included in drug labels. Nevertheless, the uptake of this important information into clinical practice has been minimal. The development of concise, evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) on ...