The development of practice guidelines has accelerated in Canada, too. The National
Partnership for Quality in Health (NAPAQH), formed a few years ago under the stewardship …

C linical practice guidelines are" systematically developed statements to assist practitioner
and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances."'Valid …

How may guidelines for clinical practice contribute to the quality and effectiveness of health
care? Two committees of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) have considered this question as …

Consortium-at-a-Glance Background A group of health services researchers and health care
providers gathered for the second invitational National Quality of Care Forum, April 15-16 …

T he work of Drs. Adam L. Linton and David K. Peachey on the development of guidelines
for medical practice constitutes a major con-tribution to the subject of effective delivery of …

T he article by Stiell and associates in this issue (starting on page 1671) raises a number of
questions: What are clinical practice guide-lines? Why do we need them? How should …

Jeanette M. DeRosario, MHSA anadian federal and provincial governments C face
relentless fiscal and societal pressures to reduce healthcare expenditures. A chief cause of …

The Effective Health Care bulletins have con-centrated on providing systematic reviews of
the research evidence on clinical and cost effectiveness to help inform decision makers and …

Quality is the watchword for health plans that wish to survive to see the new century, and
accreditation by the National Committee for Quality Assurance is becoming quality's …

Prescriptive standards of clinical conduct--practice guidelines--have proliferated throughout
medicine over the past decade. Practicing physicians are confronted with a plethora of …