Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Clinical Practice Guidelines: Government Intervention or Cost-Effective Help?

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.

Treating major depression in primary care practice: an update of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Practice Guidelines.

The Depression Guideline Panel of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research in 1993 published recommendations for treating major depression in primary care practice that were often based on studies of tertiary care psychiatric patients. We reviewed reports of randomized controlled trials in primary care settings published between 1992 and 1998. This evidence indicates that both antidepress...

Neck Pain: Clinical Practice Guidelines Help Ensure Quality Care.

In 2008, physical therapists published the first neck pain clinical practice guidelines. These guidelines have been updated and are now available in the July 2017 issue of JOSPT. To update these guidelines, physical therapists teamed with the International Collaboration on Neck Pain to identify leading practices. These revised guidelines provide direction to clinicians as they screen, evaluate,...

NICE to HELP: operationalizing National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines to improve clinical practice.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the United Kingdom developed guidelines for the diagnosis, prevention, and management of delirium in July 2010 that included 10 recommendations for delirium prevention. The Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP) is a targeted multicomponent strategy that has proven effective and cost-effective at preventing functional and cognitive...

Practice guidelines for noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation: help or hindrance?

Dr. Goldhaber is associated with Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Reproduction of this article is prohibited without written permission from the American College of Chest Physicians (e-mail: [email protected]). Correspondence to: Samuel Z. Goldhaber, MD, FCCP, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 021...