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| Clinical Practice Guidelines |
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| systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstance (U11 pp, p2-1) |
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| Grades of Recommendations |
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AGREE Instrument
(see AGREE handout) |
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Appraisal of Guideline Research & Evaluation
• Quality of reporting
• quality of recommendations
• likelihood of successful outcomes
• ... in the areas of: diagnosis, health promo, treatment/intervention
LIMITATIONS
- may not be practical to have evaluation group review all.
- May use "rigor of development" domain for initial screening (7items)
- cutoffs for each doman not universal; groups must establish own
- Does not assess impact of guideline on patient outcomes
- may have to adapt vs adopt (create own local guideline) |
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| Sources for locating BPG's and CPGs |
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• national guideline clearing house
• G.I.N. (guidelines international Network)
• Guideline developers (RNA)
• National Library of Medicine search (MEDLINE, PubMed)
ª Directly via internet (Google) |
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| Sources for locating BPG's and CPGs |
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Definition
• national guideline clearing house
• G.I.N. (guidelines international Network)
• Guideline developers (RNA)
• National Library of Medicine search (MEDLINE, PubMed)
ª Directly via internet (Google) |
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