Clinical practice guidelines: the priorities

Clinical Practice Guidelines EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines: Wilson’s disease

This Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) has been developed to assist physicians and other healthcare providers in the diagnosis and management of patients with Wilson’s disease. The goal is to describe a number of generally accepted approaches for diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of Wilson’s disease. Recommendations are based on a systematic literature review in the Medline (PubMed version),...

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Setting Priorities for Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) in the Emergency Department of a Teaching Hospital

Design, localization and implementation of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) is a time consuming and costly task. Hence, it seems necessary to set some priorities for different CPGs.This cross-sectional study was conducted in the year 2012 in Imam Hossein Hospital. All emergency medicine specialists participated in this study. The data collection instrument was a questionnaire consisting of t...

Clinical Practice Guidelines: Principles for Clinical Practice

S5 print and electronic media where they come across lay guidelines; doctors need to inform the patients regarding available treatment alternatives, their potential harms and benefits, where clinical guidelines work as the best available educative tool. CPGs highlight gaps in known literature where treatment recommendations are not clear cut; hence it helps in identifying areas where future res...

Evaluation of the Quality of Cancer-Related Fatigue Clinical Practice Guidelines

Background: Improvement of the quality ofcancer-related fatigue clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) is an important issue in oncology. Aim: This study aimed to determine the methodological quality of CPGs about cancer-related fatigue management using the AGREE II instrument. Method: This study involved a systematic search, followed by a descriptive study, to evaluate the methodological quality ...