E298 CMAJ| MARCH 18, 2019| VOLUME 191| ISSUE 11 mortality trends were also reported
in the United Kingdom, where PSA screening was discouraged. 9 When several options are …

Clinical practice guidelines are supposed to be evidence based and unbiased. High quality
guidelines have the potential to promote the use of effective clinical services, minimize …

Clinical policies, commonly known as clinical practice guidelines (CPGs), have been around
for a very long time. In the past two decades, such guidelines have proliferated both in …

Mastery of the rapidly expanding “evidence” base for the practice of medicine, coupled with
the skills needed to synthesize that information for the treatment of individual patients …

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

THE CONSISTENT USE OF WELL-DEVELOPED and medically appropriate practice
guidelines has two potentially compelling benefits. First, scientifically reliable guidelines can …

Rationale, aims, and objectives In recent years, several expensive new health technologies
have been introduced. The availability of those technologies intensifies the discussion …

Clinical practice guidelines are a key component of medicine, as they provide evidence-
based recommendations for physicians and other health care professionals about the …

Editorials Page 1 350 American Family Physician www.aafp.org/afp Volume 105, Number 4 ◆
April 2022 Clinical practice guidelines, essential tools for evidence-based practice, have …

Conclusions The IOM has strongly suggested that the current approach to development of
CPGs is flawed and fundamentally needs a new approach. 3 Despite repetitive calls from …