Clinical practice guidelines : 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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee to Advise the Public Health Service on Clinical Practice Guidelines.

Contributor:

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee to Advise the Public Health Service on Clinical Practice Guidelines.

United States. Department of Health and Human Services.

Field, Marilyn J. (Marilyn Jane)

Lohr, Kathleen N., 1941-

Lohr, K. N. (Kathleen N.)

Series:

Publication IOM Clinical practice guidelines

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care--United States.

Medical care.

Medicine--Practice--United States.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

""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 ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786610212040

9781280212048

1280212047

9780309560016

0309560012

9780585156316

058515631X

OCLC:

923268396