Hypertension guidelines: criteria that might make them more clinically useful

Hypertension guidelines: criteria that might make them more clinically useful.

Cardiovascular disease prevention depends on reduction of risk factors, including hypertension. Guidelines designed to improve management of hypertension are widely available. Their purpose is to assemble the available data from basic biomedical science, epidemiology, and clinical science in an accessible form with which physicians and patients can make reasoned decisions for individual cases. ...

In the eye of the beholder: to make global health estimates useful, make them more socially robust

A plethora of new development goals and funding institutions have greatly increased the demand for internationally comparable health estimates in recent years and have brought important new players into the field of health estimate production. These changes have rekindled debates about the validity and legitimacy of global health estimates. This paper draws on country case studies and personal ...

Getting a grip on guidelines: how to make them more relevant for practice

Getting a grip on guidelines: how to make them more relevant for practice.

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Survey of preferred guideline attributes: what helps to make guidelines more useful for emergency health practitioners?

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Enhancing CPG acceptance and implementation can play a major role in the development and establishment of emergency medicine as a specialty in many parts of the world. A Guideline International Network special interest group established to support collaboration to improve uptake of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) across the emergency care sector conducted an interna...