Abstract Setting priorities and selecting topics are important steps in guidelines
development, but they have received relatively little attention to date. Responses from a …

The organizing committee of a workshop on clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) surveyed
invited organizations on their attitudes and activities related to five topics to be covered …

This book examines methods for selecting topics and setting priorities for clinical practice
guideline development and implementation. Clinical practice guidelines are" systematically …

There is increasing interest in the role of clinical guidelines in encouraging good practice
and thus generating health gain.'However, there is professional ambivalence towards …

Background. A central problem in practice guideline development is how to develop
guidelines that appropriately account for variations in clinical populations and practice …

Ed MJ Field, KN Lohr National Academy Press,£ 24.95, pp 426 ISBN 0-309-04589-4" y ound
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Since the rationing of scarce resources requires a targeting of those resources to obtain best
value for money, it is important to have mechanisms for assuring effective health care …

PROLOGUE: Health policymakers are interested in finding out how organizations are
implementing clinical guidelines in the real world of managed care. With that in mind, the …

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 …

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