Clinical guidelines are usually written as text documents that are meant for human consumption. Implementing clinical guidelines as decision-support systems that deliver patient-specific advice at the point of care could increase the effectiveness of clinical guidelines. Several researchers studied the transition from narrative guidelines to computer-interpretable guidelines and have identified...

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BACKGROUND Presently, no comprehensive and validated questionnaire to measure patient experiences of the preoperative assessment clinic (PAC) is available. We developed and validated the Patient Experiences with the Preoperative Assessment Clinic (PEPAC) questionnaire, which can be used for quantitative measurements of patient experiences of the PAC. METHODS We adapted the National Health Ser...

CONTEXT The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has an explicit mandate to include patient and public involvement in the appraisal of medicines to be available for funding on the NHS. NICE involves an appraisal committee who are required to take on board experiential evidence from patient experts alongside population-based evidence on clinical and cost-effectiveness when ma...

quality Read the paper carefully and don’t rely on the abstract alone. Around 24%-60% of abstracts in peer reviewed journals have deficiencies. Three common types of inaccuracies are: 1) data inconsistent in abstract and body of the paper, tables, and figures; 2) data or information in the abstract do not appear elsewhere; and 3) conclusions in the abstract not substantiated in the paper itself...

BACKGROUND To investigate how a relatively socio-economically deprived community's needs have changed over time, assess which recommendations from an earlier assessment were implemented and sustained, and consider whether serial Rapid Participatory Appraisal is an effective health research tool that can promote community development and has utility in assessing longitudinal change. METHODS Ra...

introduction: appraiser is the main interface between the performance appraisal system and those being appraised. their views and behaviors have different effects on the performance of the evaluation system, as well as the reactions subjects of the appraisal make toward the system and their subsequent performance. hence, appraisers need to be trained enough regarding the appraisal. therefore, t...

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Since 1999, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Abstract Technology Appraisal Programme has been charged with producing guidance for the NHS in England and Wales on the appropriate use of new and existing healthcare programmes. Guidance is based on an assessment of a number of factors, including cost effectiveness. The identification, measurement and valuation of co...

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