Background Clinical practice guidelines are an important element of evidence-based
practice. Considering an often complicated body of evidence can be problematic for …

Objectives: To report on the updating of two evidence-based guidelines. Methods:
Development of multi-disciplinary evidence-based guidelines within the North of England …

Objective: To identify the number of Australian clinical practice guidelines, and their key
characteristics. Design, setting and participants: Clinical practice guidelines that were …

Clinical practice guidelines are one of the foundations of efforts to improve healthcare. In
1999, we authored a paper about methods to develop guidelines. Since it was published …

A recently published critique of a set of Australian clinical practice guidelines (CPG)
highlighted problematic issues in guideline development concerning conflicts of interest of …

Selecting, presenting and delivering clinical guidelines: are there any “magic bullets”? Page 1
S52 MJA Vol 180 15 March 2004 ADOPTING BEST EVIDENCE IN PRACTICE SUPPLEMENT …

Abstract Background The World Health Organization (WHO), like many other organisations
around the world, has recognised the need to use more rigorous processes to ensure that …

Objectives We conducted a comparative review of clinical practice guideline development
handbooks. We aimed to identify the main guideline development tasks, assign weights to …

Background. Clinical practice guidelines should be based on the best available evidence.
However, this evidence is often incomplete, controversial, or lacking. Other considerations …

This paper introduces the concepts of evidencebased clinical practice guidelines. It
describes the key elements of guideline development, using examples from the Scottish …