Developing and implementing clinical practice guidelines.
Developing and implementing clinical practice guidelines.
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DOI:
10.1136/qshc.4.1.55
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发表时间:
1995-03-01
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通讯作者:
Sheldon, T
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作者:
Grimshaw, J;Freemantle, N;Sheldon, T
The Effective Health Care bulletins have con-centrated 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 itself is rarely sufficient to stimulate corresponding change in practice. Various implementation strategies can be used to promote the use of research evidence. One approach which has received growing attention and support is the development and implemen-tation of clinical practice guidelines.'2 These are" systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate healthcare for specific clinical circumstances." 3 Some previous bulletins argued for the incorporation of the evidence on effectiveness into guidelines, 4 5andit has been argued that healthcare commissioners should purchase guidelines or protocols rather than simple procedures. 6 This paper examines the evidence on whether practice guidelines can change the behaviour of health professionals and how best to introduce them into clinical practice. The characteristics of high quality guidelines and how purchasers might use guidelines in commissioning are also considered.Evaluating implementation of guidelines Grimshaw and Russell undertook a systematic review of rigorous evaluations of clinical guidelines published between1976 and 1992.7 In this paper the review has been updated to include another 32 studies either previously unidentified or published up until June 1994. To identify evaluations of clinical guidelines the DHSS-DATA, 5 Embase, 9 Medline,'0 and SIGLE" databases were searched, all since 1975; published bibliographies of related topics12-26 were searched; and citations in articles were reviewed. Further references were provided by colleagues. Investigations of clinical guidelines were reviewed in depth if they were intended primarily for medical staff, if they used rigorousstudy designs to evaluate the effectiveness of guidelines in terms of the process of care or outcome for patients, and if they reported sufficient data for statistical analysis.