Clinical practice guidelines [[electronic resource] ] : directions for a new program / / Committee to Advise the Public Health Service on Clinical Practice Guidelines, Institute of Medicine ; Marilyn J. Field and Kathleen N. Lohr, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778505703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1990
• ISBN: 1-280-21204-7; 9786610212040; 0-309-56001-2; 0-585-15631-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (168 p.)
• Collana: Publication IOM Clinical practice guidelines
• Altri autori (Persone): FieldMarilyn J (Marilyn Jane); LohrKathleen N. <1941->; LohrK. N (Kathleen N.)
• Disciplina: 362.10973
• Soggetti: Medical care - United States; Medicine - Practice - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Clinical Practice Guidelines""; ""Copyright""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""CONTEXT""; ""OVERVIEW OF PRACTICE GUIDELINES INITIATIVES""; ""Public Initiatives""; ""Private Initiatives""; ""INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE COMMITTEE AND PROJECT""; ""FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""State of the Art""; ""Ahcpr and the Forum""; ""Roles of Public and Private Sectors""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS: DEFINITIONS""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS: ATTRIBUTES OF GOOD GUIDELINES""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS: IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION""; ""DIVERSITY IN CLINICAL PRACTICES AND GUIDELINES""; ""EXPECTATIONS FOR PRACTICE GUIDELINES""""NEXT STEPS FOR THE INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE""; ""FINAL COMMENT""; ""1 Introduction and Background ""; ""CONTEXT""; ""OVERVIEW OF PRACTICE GUIDELINES INITIATIVES""; ""Public Initiatives""; ""Private Initiatives""; ""SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES OF AHCPR""; ""Deadlines and Priorities""; ""Development Procedures and Requirements""; ""Dissemination""; ""Use ; of Guidelines""; ""Evaluation and Further Research""; ""THE INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE COMMITTEE AND PROJECT""; ""OVERVIEW OF THE REPORT""; ""CONCLUSIONS AND CAUTIONARY NOTES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""2 Definitions of Key Terms """"THE COMMITTEE'S APPROACH""; ""PRACTICE GUIDELINES""; ""Common Usage: The Dictionary""; ""Professional and Technical Usage""; ""The Committee's Definition: Practice Guideline""; ""Guidelines and the Strength of Evidence""; ""Relation of Guidelines to Review Criteria and Other Evaluation Tools""; ""Definition of Appropriate Care""; ""Guidelines and Costs""; ""EVALUATION INSTRUMENTS""; ""MEDICAL REVIEW CRITERIA""; ""Common Usage: The Dictionary""; ""Professional and Technical Usage""; ""The Committee's Definition: Medical Review Criteria""; ""STANDARDS OF QUALITY""""Common Usage: The Dictionary""; ""Professional and Technical Usage""; ""The Committee's Definition: Standards of Quality""; ""PERFORMANCE MEASURES""; ""Common Usage: The Dictionary""; ""Professional and Technical Usage""; ""The Committee's Provisional Definition: Performance Measures""; ""CONCLUSIONS AND SUMMARY""; ""REFERENCES""; ""3 Attributes of Good Practice Guidelines ""; ""BACKGROUND AND TERMINOLOGY""; ""WORKING ASSUMPTIONS""; ""PRINCIPLES""; ""PAST WORK ON DEFINING ATTRIBUTES""; ""ATTRIBUTES FOR ASSESSING PRACTICE GUIDELINES: OVERVIEW""; ""VALIDITY""; ""Projected Health Outcomes""""Projected Costs""; ""Relationship Between the Evidence and the Guidelines""; ""Preference for Empirical Evidence Over Expert Judgement""; ""Thorough Literature Review""; ""Methods Used to Evaluate the Scientific Literature""; ""Strength of Evidence""; ""Use of Expert Judgment""; ""Strength of Expert Consensus""; ""Independent Review""; ""Pretesting""; ""RELIABILITY/REPRODUCIBILITY""; ""CLINICAL APPLICABILITY""; ""CLINICAL FLEXIBILITY""; ""CLARITY""; ""MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROCESS""; ""SCHEDULED REVIEW""; ""DOCUMENTATION""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""4 Implementation and Evaluation ""