Transforming Guidelines in Routine Practice

Transforming guidelines in routine practice.

Transforming Guidelines in Routine Practice To the Editor: We have read with great interest the AHA/ASA guidelines on the early management of acute stroke patients,1,2 and we wish to report our experience as regards to the role of Emergency Medical Services (ES) personnel in the management of acute stroke patients. In order to evaluate the role of training on the accesses to our University Hosp...

Routine use of clinical management guidelines in Australian general practice.

Significant gaps remain between recommendations of evidence-based guidelines and primary health care practice in Australia. This paper aims to evaluate factors associated with the use of guidelines reported by Australian GPs. Secondary analysis was performed on a survey of primary care practitioners which was conducted by the Commonwealth Fund in 2009: 1016 general practitioners responded in Au...

Assessing adherence to guidelines for common mental disorders in routine clinical practice.

OBJECTIVE To measure the overall level of adherence to clinical guidelines with a set of cross-diagnostic process indicators in a randomly selected sample of outpatients who started an acute phase treatment for a common mental disorder in a routine clinical setting. DESIGN SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS We developed a generic set of quality measures to asses the implementation of guidelines in d...

Practice Guidelines in Oncology

Pediatric length of stay guidelines and routine practice: the case of Milliman and Robertson.

BACKGROUND Guidelines for inpatient length of stay (LOS) have been developed by Milliman and Robertson (M&R) and are widely applied by health plans. This study was designed to compare LOS for several pediatric conditions with the M&R LOS criteria using recent data and to determine if concordance of actual practice with M&R LOS criteria varied between children and adults. DESIGN Administrative...