BACKGROUND The work of developing clinical practice guidelines began just a little more than ten years ago in China. Up to now, there have been few studies about them. OBJECTIVES To review and analyze the status of Chinese clinical practice guidelines in 1997-2007. METHODS All Chinese guidelines from 1997-2007 were collected, and made a regression analysis, and a citation analysis for evalu...

IntroductIon In the past decades, the introduction of evidence‐based medicine has prompted a paradigm shift in clinical practice. One of the important progress is involving health‐care professionals in making informed decisions according to recommendations from evidence‐based practice guidelines or other guidance documents (e.g., expert consensus statements) published by national and internatio...

Clinical practice guidelines incorporate the best available evidence for the management of a disease or an aspect of disease treatment or prevention into a single document for health care providers. The quality of practice guidelines has improved by adopting standard approaches to the development of guidelines and reviewing their quality for use in patient care. Implementing guidelines into cli...

Dr Delitto is well known for his many outstanding accomplishments and contributions to the physical therapy profession. In practice and research, he has represented APTA on practice guidelines initiatives from federal and professional societies, including the Decade of the Bone and Joint initiative. He has been an invited scientific and professional speaker at numerous national and internationa...

The importance of evidence for every branch of medicine in teaching in order to orient the practitioners among the great amount of most actual scientific information's, and to support clinical decisions, is well established in health care, including dentistry. The practice of evidence-based medicine is a process of lifelong, self-directed, problem-based learning which leads to the need for clin...

The Academy of Medicine, Singapore (AMS) and the Ministry of Health (MOH) publish clinical practice guidelines to provide doctors and patients in Singapore with evidence-based guidance on managing important medical conditions. This article reproduces the introduction and executive summary (with recommendations from the guidelines) from the AMS-MOH clinical practice guidelines on the Management ...

An estimated 1 in 1,000 pregnancies is complicated by cancer, and the incidence of cancer during pregnancy is expected to increase as women delay childbirth until their later years. A diagnosis of cancer and the cancer treatment process can be particularly difficult for the pregnant patient, and are challenging for the physician and nurse. This article provides an overview of cancer treatment d...

BACKGROUND GPs' adherence to clinical practice guidelines is variable. Barriers to guideline implementation have been identified but qualitative studies have not been synthesised to explore what underpins these attitudes. AIM To explore and synthesise qualitative research on GPs' attitudes to and experiences with clinical practice guidelines. DESIGN OF STUDY Systematic review and meta-synth...

BACKGROUND Improved communication from physician- patient emailing is an important element of patient centeredness. Physician-patient email use has been low; and previous data from Florida suggest that physicians who email with patients rarely implement best-practice guidelines designed to protect physicians and patients. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to examine whether email use with patients ...

BACKGROUND The delivery of healthcare depends on individual providers, coordination within teams, and the structure of the work setting. We analyzed the amount of variation in technical quality and patient satisfaction accounted for at the patient, provider, team, and medical center level. METHODS Data abstracted from Veterans Health Administration patient medical records for 2007 were used t...