Faced with a documented crisis of patients not receiving appropriate care, there is a need to
implement and refine evidence-based guidelines (EBGs) to ensure that patients receive the …

Clinical practice guidelines are developed to reduce variations in clinical practice, with the
goal of improving health care quality and cost. However, evidence-based practice …

Computerized decision support (CDS) is the most advanced form of clinical decision support
available and has evolved with innovative technologies to provide meaningful assistance to …

This is a summary of the consensus‐building workshop entitled “Guideline Implementation
and Clinical Pathways,” convened May 15, 2007, at the Academic Emergency Medicine …

Clinical practice guidelines are being used as a means of reducing inappropriate care,
controlling geographic variations in practice patterns, and making more effective use of …

Excess information in complex ICU environments exceeds human decision making limits,
increasing the likelihood of clinical errors. Explicit decision-support tools have favorable …

More than a decade ago, the Institute of Medicine defined clinical practice guidelines
(CPGs) as “systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and patient decisions …

Guidelines for Trauma Care Systems Page 1 SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION trauma care systems,
guidelines. Guidelines for Trauma Care Systems [These guidelines were developed by the …

The clinical use of guidelines30 and algorithms favorably influences patient outcome. 31,
75, 88 The most detailed and explicit algorithms in clinical decision making use rule-based …

BACKGROUND: We have preciously demonstrated that trauma patients receive less than
two-thirds of the care recommended by evidence-based medicine. The purpose of this study …