Guidelines - What are guidelines
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How is a guideline developed?
Steps:
- Preparation:
- Determine topic and population
- Identify existing guidelines
- Put together a multidisciplinary team/workgroup
- Literature research
- Determine key questions
- Determine search strategy and search for literature
- Select literature
- Evaluate the quality of the scientific literature
- Composing the guideline
- Formulate recommendations
- Prepare for implementation and
- evaluating the use of the guideline within practice.
- Keeping the guideline up-to-date
What’s the difference between a guideline and a systematic review?
What is the purpose of guidelines?
- Transparency of care
- Increase uniformity
- Improve working in team and interdisciplinarity
- Support decision making in both diagnostics and therapy
- Can help change treatment methods & perform self-evaluation
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What are healthcare standards
- a description of the minimal level of good practice from the perspective of the healthcare user
- The content of care, organisation of care and support of self-management are included
What are care pathways
- Care processes for a well-defined group during a well-defined period
- Based on evidence, best practice and patient’s expectations
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