Clinicians base their decisions on input from multiple sources: comfort levels with past
decisions; advice from influential people such as teachers, residency supervisors and other …

Evidence-based clinical guidelines use summaries of critically appraised, current evidence
to provide readily available recommendations for clinical decision-making. When clinicians …

Practice Guidelines3 combines 2 earlier documents, which have been updated and revised
for use by individuals and groups interested in the development, adaptation, implementation …

GUIDELINES AND SYSTEMATIC RE-views must adhere to tougher standards for
transparency and objectivity and adopt consistent formats to make them trustworthy and …

Objectives: To examine whether existing clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for cholesterol
testing reflect research evidence and hence may control or reduce costs while maintaining …

Importance Clinicians may rely on recommendations from clinical practice guidelines for
management of patients. Observations A clinical practice guideline is a published statement …

Clinical practice guidelines are the most important documents for the incorporation of
scientific evidence in health decision making through the formulation of recommendations …

Clinical practice guidelines abound. The recommendations contained in these guidelines
are used not only to make decisions about the care of individual patients but also as practice …

BACKGROUND Rigorous guideline development methods are designed to produce
recommendations that are relevant to common clinical situations and consistent with …

Background: Although several tools to evaluate the credibility of health care guidelines exist,
guidance on practical steps for developing guidelines is lacking. We systematically compiled …