What are Clinical Practice Guidelines? What makes a high quality guideline? How do you seek out an evidence-based practice guideline? Are you in the process of developing one? What are your experiences in guideline implementation? We will explore these questions and more in the coming week.
Possible topics or posts for discussions
- What is CPG? What Makes a High Quality Guideline?
- Develop a guideline question
- Finding evidence for the guideline (Searching the literature)
- Guideline development tools:
- Guideline scoring tools, e.g. Agree II
- Implementing a CPG
- Your experience developing a guideline
- Your questions to the group about developing, implementing or evaluating a guideline
- Tools for Evidence-Based Decision Making
Our group (the Guideline Utilization Resource Unit) develops treatment guidelines for AHS - Cancer Care. Any strong guidelines program should be well supported by executives and decision makers--"support" meaning adequate funding for resources, not only to develop good quality guidelines, but to then implement and evaluate them.
ReplyDeleteDespite the best of intentions, funding is often limited, as is the case right now for most groups within AHS. When financial support is hard to come by, a good strategy may be to look for funding externally. Guideline implementation can be considered a form of knowledge transfer (KT). As such, a guideline evaluation project that measures implementation as a KT strategy may be eligible for funding by groups that support KT work. One example is Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions.
Once a group can demonstrate the value of investing resources in guideline development, implementation, and evaluation, it should be easier to make the case for permanent, operational funding.