scholarly journals Clinical Practice Guidelines: who needs them?

1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 403-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Marriott
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Clinical Practice Guidelines ◽  
Practice Guidelines ◽  
Medical Technology ◽  
Indirect Costs ◽  
Routine Practice ◽  
Direct And Indirect Costs ◽  
Health Community

Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) are systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and patient in clinical decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances. The Royal College of Psychiatrists CPG Programme aims to develop clinical guidelines which are scientifically valid and acceptable to those affected by them. At the same time, CPGs must be responsive to advances in knowledge, and versatile enough for the demands of routine practice. Their development involves a number of stages and a variety of methods, built into a cycle of evaluation and review. The Programme has established priorities for clinical topics for CPG development through consultation with the mental health community. Well-developed CPGs would benefit clinicians, patients and purchasers of care. It Is now important to appraise their ability to change clinical practice, the associated direct and indirect costs, and their value as a medical technology. The clinical professions are in the strongest position to co-ordinate their development, and guide their evaluation.

scholarly journals Clinical practice guidelines: the priorities

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Clinical Practice Guidelines ◽  
Practice Guidelines ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Guideline Development ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Health Community ◽  
Self Harm

The Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) Steering Group commissioned a survey to find out which areas of clinical practice the mental health community view as priority for the development of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). Fifty per cent of all professionals and service users surveyed considered the assessment of risk and management of deliberate self-harm and dangerousness' a priority area for guideline development. These findings provided the basis for a successful bid to the Department of Health for the development of The Royal College of Psychiatrists' first CPG.

Australian and New Zealand Clinical Practice Guidelines for Specialist Adult Mental Health Care: An Introduction

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Boyce ◽  
Peter Ellis ◽  
Jonine Penrose-Wall
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Clinical Practice Guidelines ◽  
Practice Guidelines ◽  
Guideline Development ◽  
Adult Mental Health ◽  
Background Material

Objective: To introduce, for College Fellows, Associates and Trainees and other readers of Australasian Psychiatry, the Australian and New Zealand Clinical Practice Guidelines for Specialist Adult Mental Health Care. Conclusions: For clinical practice guidelines to be applied appropriately and with confidence in practice, their development process, quality characteristics and limitations must be transparent to health systems, guideline users and consumers. Moreover, their status as evidence-based guidelines or consensus guidelines, or mixed-status guidelines, must be made explicit. This introduction to the Australian and New Zealand Clinical Practice Guidelines for Specialist Adult Mental Health Care is designed to assist you in implementing the guidelines in your practice. These are guidelines to assist practice. They are not a set of prescriptions about what to do. The process for developing the six guidelines is summarized. It involved over 70 individuals directly, who worked over a 2-year period in six independent guideline development teams to synthesize the research findings and to consult on draft recommendations. The teams included consumer and carer writing panels for most of the consumer guidelines. The series includes titles on schizophrenia; bipolar disorder; depression; panic and agoraphobia; anorexia nervosa; and deliberate self-harm. Full versions of the guidelines are to be published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. Consumer versions are published elsewhere. Extended versions and background material is available on the RANZCP website.

scholarly journals Clinical Practice Guidelines andHelicobacter pyloriInfection in Children

1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 560-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Macarthur ◽  
Liisa Jaakkimainen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Clinical Practice Guidelines ◽  
Practice Guidelines ◽  
Guideline Development ◽  
Guideline Implementation ◽  
Key Steps ◽  
Evidence Based Guidelines ◽  
Care Costs

The objective of this paper is to review the principles, methods and issues behind the development of clinical practice guidelines. Practice guidelines have been defined as “systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances”. The ultimate goal of guidelines is to improve patient outcomes; however, they may also be used as tools to decrease health care costs, improve medical education and enhance quality assurance. Evidence-based guidelines use explicit methods to link recommendations to the quality of the underlying research. Following development of the guideline, implementation and evaluation are key steps. The ultimate aim of guideline development is to influence physician knowledge, attitudes and behaviour.

scholarly journals Diagnosing and managing work‐related mental health conditions in general practice: new Australian clinical practice guidelines

2019 ◽  
Vol 211 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle Mazza ◽  
Samantha P Chakraborty ◽  
Bianca Brijnath ◽  
Heather Nowak ◽  
Cate Howell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
General Practice ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Clinical Practice Guidelines ◽  
Practice Guidelines ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Mental Health Conditions ◽  
Work Related

scholarly journals A Critical Approach to Clinical Practice Guidelines

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 505-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
John K Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Patient Outcomes ◽  
Clinical Practice Guidelines ◽  
Practice Guidelines ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Improve Patient

The rate of publication of clinical practice guidelines for the management of common medical illnesses continues to accelerate. The appropriate dissemination and uptake of high quality practice guidelines can synthesize evidence, improve patient outcomes and enhance the efficiency of health care delivery. However, the methodological rigour and relevance of the growing number of publications labelled ’clinical practice guidelines’ vary widely. Health care payers, providers and advocates must learn to appraise and interpret guideline recommendations critically. A simple and practical nine-question approach to evaluating the quality, relevance and effectiveness of clinical practice guidelines is presented.

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