Guidelines for Clinical Practice: From Development to Use

Guidelines for Clinical Practice: From Development to Use
ISBN-10
0309045894
ISBN-13
9780309045896
Category
Medical
Pages
441
Language
English
Published
1992-02-01
Publisher
National Academies Press
Authors
Institute of Medicine, Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines

Description

Guidelines for the clinical practice of medicine have been proposed as the solution to the whole range of current health care problems. This new book presents the first balanced and highly practical view of guidelinesâ€"their strengths, their limitations, and how they can be used most effectively to benefit health care. The volume offers: Recommendations and a proposed framework for strengthening development and use of guidelines. Numerous examples of guidelines. A ready-to-use instrument for assessing the soundness of guidelines. Six case studies exploring issues involved when practitioners use guidelines on a daily basis. With a real-world outlook, the volume reviews efforts by agencies and organizations to disseminate guidelines and examines how well guidelines are functioningâ€"exploring issues such as patient information, liability, costs, computerization, and the adaptation of national guidelines to local needs.

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