Clinical practice guidelines: A guide to better practice, not a recipe for uniformity

Clinical practice guidelines: a guide to better practice, not a recipe for uniformity.

Soft Systems Methodology for Implementing Clinical Practice Guidelines in A General Hospital: A study protocol

Background: It is notoriously challenging to implement evidence-based care and to update and improve health care policy. Adhering to evidence-based Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) serves as the driving force behind making decisions based on the best evidence and making efforts for improving the quality of patient care and outcomes. Despite requiring Iranian hospitals to implement CPGs in Ja...

NEW-GUIDE: a new approach to representing clinical practice guidelines

Introduction – Computer-based representation of Clinical Practice Guidelines (GLs) is an important research topic in medical informatics. It has been proposed to promote guideline dissemination and to help improve physicians’ compliance with guidelines. There are several aspects to tackle, in order to implement efficient, real world decision support systems built on GLs. Some aspects concern th...

A Systematic Review of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer

Cancer constitutes a huge burden on societies in countries with any level of economic development. Prostate cancer is the first most diagnosed cancer of men in developed countries and the forth one in developing countries in terms of incidence rate. It is also the third incident cancer of men in Iran along with a prevalence of about 10,000 cases. Castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) is a...

A Systematic Review of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer

Cancer constitutes a huge burden on societies in countries with any level of economic development. Prostate cancer is the first most diagnosed cancer of men in developed countries and the forth one in developing countries in terms of incidence rate. It is also the third incident cancer of men in Iran along with a prevalence of about 10,000 cases. Castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) is a...