Independent guideline appraisal summary report for guidelines for chiropractic quality assurance and practice parameters (Mercy)

Evaluating the quality of clinical practice guidelines.

OBJECTIVE To review and identify established methods for evaluating the quality of practice guidelines and to use a selected assessment tool to assess 2 chiropractic practice guideline documents. METHODS A search of the medical literature was performed to identify current methods and procedures for practice guideline evaluation. Two chiropractic practice guideline documents, Vertebral Subluxa...

An independent assessment of chiropractic practice guidelines.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the quality of Recommended Clinical Protocols and Guidelines for the Practice of Chiropractic (ICA guidelines) published by the International Chiropractors Association (ICA), August, 2000. METHODS The Appraisal Instrument for Clinical Guidelines (Cluzeau instrument) was applied to the ICA guidelines by 10 independent experienced evaluators. An independent, global assessm...

Guidelines and Quality Assurance for Acquired Cytogenetics

Clinical Practice Guideline: Chiropractic Care for Low Back Pain.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to provide an update of a previously published evidence-based practice guideline on chiropractic management of low back pain. METHODS This project updated and combined 3 previous guidelines. A systematic review of articles published between October 2009 through February 2014 was conducted to update the literature published since the previous Council on...

Quality assurance of appraisal summaries.

Objective assessment of whether doctors meet the General Medical Council (GMC) standards for revalidation1,2 is a new challenge. In Hertfordshire GP senior appraisers started to quality assure appraisals in January 2013 with the aim of ensuring that they were up to sufficient standard to enable the responsible officer to base revalidation recommendations on their outcomes. A quality assurance f...