STUDY QUESTION What is the optimal management of women with premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) based on the best available evidence in the literature? SUMMARY ANSWER The guideline development group (GDG) formulated 99 recommendations answering 31 key questions on the diagnosis and treatment of women with POI. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY NA. STUDY DESIGN, SIZE, DURATION This guideline was pro...

BACKGROUND Clinical guidelines support decision-making at the point-of-care but the onus is often on individual users such as physicians to implement them. Research shows that the inclusion of implementation tools in or with guidelines (GItools) is associated with guideline use. However, there is little research on which GItools best support implementation by individual physicians. The purpose ...

BACKGROUND An unstable angina guideline was published in 1994 by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Bethesda, Md. However, the relationship between guideline-concordant care and patient outcomes is unknown. OBJECTIVE To determine whether guideline-concordant care is associated with improved outcomes. METHODS The study sample consisted of 275 consecutive nonreferral patients hos...

OBJECTIVE To develop a guideline document model that includes a sufficiently broad set of concepts to be useful throughout the guideline life cycle. DESIGN Current guideline document models are limited in that they reflect the specific orientation of the stakeholder who created them; thus, developers and disseminators often provide few constructs for conceptualizing recommendations, while imp...