Clinician-directed treatment guidelines

Do clinical guidelines reduce clinician dependent costs?

Clinician dependent costs are the costs of care that are under the discretion of the healthcare provider. These costs include the costs of drugs, tests and investigations, and discretionary outpatient visits and impatient stays. The purpose of this review was to summarize recent evidence, relevant to both developed and developing countries on whether evidence based clinical guidelines can chang...

Incorporating clinical guidelines through clinician decision-making

BACKGROUND It is generally acknowledged that a disparity between knowledge and its implementation is adversely affecting quality of care. An example commonly cited is the failure of clinicians to follow clinical guidelines. A guiding assumption of this view is that adherence should be gauged by a standard of conformance. At least some guideline developers dispute this assumption and claim that ...

Canadian guidelines for rhinosinusitis: practical tools for the busy clinician

Acute bacterial rhinosinusitis (ABRS) and chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) frequently present in clinical practice. Guidelines for management of these conditions have been published extensively in the past. However, a set of guidelines that addressed issues specific to the Canadian environment while offering clear guidance for first-line clinicians was needed, and resulted in the recent publication...

Cholera in the Americas. Guidelines for the clinician.

Immigration Is Trauma : Guidelines for the Individual and Family Clinician

This paper considers hoo pertinent strands in the contemporary immigrant mental health literature: 1) the distinction made between stressors that are endemic to most immigrant experiences us. those migration stressors that precipitate trauma per se; and 2) clinical guidelines that continue to rejine the assessment of immigran ts’ presenting mental health problems, given the provision of sewices...