Reader Survey: Are standards needed for clinical guideline development? Tell us what you
think. Guideline development processes vary substantially, and many guidelines do not …

Abstract The Sixth Conference on the “Standards of Laboratory Practice Series”, sponsored
by the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry (NACB), was held on August 4–5, 1998, at …

Numerous health care disciplines have noted that insufficient research evidence is used in
clinical practice. This situation denies optimal care to patients and potentially increases …

Premature infants with a patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) are at increased risk of more
prolonged and more severe respiratory distress syndrome, bronchopulmonary dysplasia …

Clinical practice guidelines (CPG) for the nutritional management of premature infants are
limited. This project focused on the development of a research-based enteral feeding CPG …

BACKGROUND. The use of clinical guidelines is one strategy intended to improve health
care quality, rein in costs, and standardize medical practice. Clinical guideline development …

Background. Implementing clinical practice guidelines to change patient outcomes presents
a challenge. Studies of single interventions focused on changing provider behavior …

The development of effective implementation strategies for chiropractic clinical practice
guidelines (CPGs) presumes knowledge about the attitudes of the Canadian chiropractic …

Clinical practice guidelines are expanding their scope of authority from clinical decision
making to collective policy making, and promise to gain ground as resource allocation tools …

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