Clinical practice guidelines are one of the foundations of efforts to improve health care. In 1999, we authored a paper about methods to develop guidelines. Since it was published, the methods of guideline development have progressed both in terms of methods and necessary procedures and the context for guideline development has changed with the emergence of guideline clearing houses and large s...

ObjectivesHealth guidelines are a key knowledge translation tool produced and used by numerous stakeholders worldwide. Effective participation in guideline development groups or is crucial for success, yet little guidance exists members of these groups. In this study, we present the Guideline Participant Tool (GPT) to support effective groups, particular those using Grading Recommendations, Ass...

BACKGROUND Quality indicators (QIs) are used in many healthcare settings to measure, compare, and improve quality of care. For the efficient development of high-quality QIs, rigorous, approved, and evidence-based development methods are needed. Clinical practice guidelines are a suitable source to derive QIs from, but no gold standard for guideline-based QI development exists. This review aims ...

List of abbreviations 4 Introduction 5 The history and development of the new guideline ICH Topic Q8 5 The contents and requirements according to the new guideline 9 Comparison of the current guideline ICH Q8 with the previous guideline 15 Comparison of both guidelines – a summary 28 The term Design Space-Integration into ICH Q8, Q9 and Q10 29 Requirements of the new guideline for the innovatin...

Context: In Austria there are two main sources of law concerning quality in health system: the ‘Gesundheitsqualitätsgesetz’ (health quality law) and the so-called ‘Vereinbarung gemäß Artikel 15a B-VG’ (agreement according to article 15a of the Federal Constitution) which regulates organisation and financing of the health care system. Both postulate transsectoral, transdisciplinal and evidence-b...

BACKGROUND Clinical guidelines are considered important instruments to improve quality in health care. Since 1998 the Royal Dutch Society for Physical Therapy (KNGF) produced evidence-based clinical guidelines, based on a standardized program. New developments in the field of guideline research raised the need to evaluate and update the KNGF guideline program. Purpose of this study is to compar...