Last Updated: 15-Jun-07
Clinical practice guidelines (CPG) are 'systematically developed statements to assist practitioners and consumer decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances'. They are tools used by healthcare professionals to assist in clinical decision making and to improve healthcare for consumers.
The last decade has seen an increasing focus on systematically summarising research evidence in order to develop more evidence-based recommendations. This more rigorous approach involves multidisciplinary teams representing various stakeholders and perspecties, who systematically locate and appraise research evidence, to produce explicitly evidence-based guidelines.
The Handbook for the Preparation of Explicit Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines is designed to be used by members of guideline development teams, to assist them to produce evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Our expectation is that this approach will have a positive impact on the quality of healthcare delivery.
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