The American College of Physicians (ACP) established its evidence-based clinical practice guidelines program in 1981. The ACP's Guidelines Committee and the staff of the Clinical Programs and Quality of Care Department develop the clinical recommendations. The ACP develops 2 different types of clinical recommendations: clinical practice guidelines and clinical guidance statements. The ACP clini...

Formal methods for the development of clinical practice guidelines have emerged to address societal needs to decrease physician practice variation, slow the rise of health-care costs, monitor inappropriate care, assist clinicians to stay abreast of new clinical information, set research priorities, and promote better health-care outcomes. Evidence-based methods ensure that guidelines provide va...

A lthough clinical practice guidelines offer considerable promise for improving health-care outcomes, significant hurdles exist in implementing guideline recommendations. The conference attendees and invited experts participated in three discussion groups that developed recommendations for assisting the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) in adopting strategies for guideline implementat...

Results Of the 10 evidence-informed guidelines list below, “Maintain ethical standards of practice” was rated the highest, with “Access relevant information to find evidence-informed answers to questions that arise in clinical practice” coming in second and “Integrate multiple forms of evidence into clinical practice” ranked third most significant. 1. Define EIP and describe its role 2. Describ...

This review article considers implications of psychotherapy research for psychotherapy training. It considers 8 themes that characterize the research literature. The themes involve outcome findings, common factors, empirically supported therapies, patient treatment matches, therapy manuals and practice guidelines, brief therapies, combinations of medication and psychotherapy, and group therapie...

BACKGROUND The importance of engaging parents in health research as co-researchers is gaining growing recognition. While a number of benefits of involving parents as co-researchers have been proposed, guidelines on exactly how effective engagement can be achieved are lacking. The objectives of this scoping review were to (i) synthesize current evidence on engaging parents as co-researchers in h...