BACKGROUND Evidence-based medicine would come to the result by evidence-based implementation. Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) as one of the evidence-based knowledge products requires appropriate interventions after being produced to be applied. OBJECTIVES The aim of this qualitative study was to identify the strategies for application of CPGs produced in Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS The p...

BACKGROUND Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are typically written for health care professionals but are meant to assist patients with health care decisions. A number of guideline producers have started to develop patient versions of CPGs to reach this audience. OBJECTIVE To describe the content and purpose of patient versions of CPGs and compare with patient and public views of CPGs. DES...

BACKGROUND Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) serve as standards of care in practice, quality improvement, and reimbursement. The extent of conflicts of interest (COIs) in cardiology guideline production has not been well studied. Herein, we describe the scope of COIs in CPGs. METHODS We examined the 17 most recent American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines through ...

Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are important tools for clinical decision-making in modern health care.1The introduction of CPGs into clinical practice has revolutionized the way clinicians care for patients, by allowing them to integrate principles of evidencebased medicine with patient-specific factors and clinical judgment.2 Through dissemination of specific recommendations, CPGs attempt...

Background: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists is coordinating the development of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) in psychiatry, funded under the National Mental Health Strategy (Australia) and the New Zealand Health Funding Authority Method: For these guidelines, the CPG team reviewed the treatment outcome literature (including meta-analyses) and consulted with p...

ity of Canadian clinical practice guidelines stymies efforts to improve care, as timepressed clinicians must sift through a sea of conflicting recommendations to find pearls of best practice, knowledge translation experts argue. They’re calling for a national strategy to standardize how such guidelines are developed, evaluated and disseminated in a bid to address the inconsistent methodology, l...

BACKGROUND Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) aim to improve professionalism in health care. However, current CPG development manuals fail to address how to include ethical issues in a systematic and transparent manner. The objective of this study was to assess the representation of ethical issues in general CPGs on dementia care. METHODS AND FINDINGS To identify national CPGs on dementia ca...

BACKGROUND Research training programmes are a knowledge translation (KT) intervention which aim to improve research evidence uptake by clinicians. Whilst KT training programmes have been reported to significantly improve evidence uptake by physiotherapists, it is unclear which aspects of training optimally assist KT into physiotherapy practice. The purpose of the review was to establish the bod...

BACKGROUND Public agencies responsible for implementing health care policies often adapt and disseminate clinical practice guidelines, but the effectiveness of mass dissemination of guidelines is unknown. AIM To study the effects of guideline dissemination on physicians' prescribing practices for the treatment of stable angina pectoris. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. METHODS A sample...