Background Printed educational materials are widely used dissemination strategies to
improve the quality of healthcare professionals' practice and patient health outcomes …

Deprescribing, an integral component of a continuum of good prescribing practices, is the
process of medication withdrawal or dose reduction to correct or prevent medication-related …

Reader Survey: Are standards needed for clinical guideline development? Tell us what you
think. Guideline development processes vary substantially, and many guidelines do not …

British Medical Association Book Award Winner-President's Award of the Year 2018 From
the author of the bestselling introduction to evidence-based medicine, this brand new title …

The methods of guideline development should ensure that treating patients according to the
guidelines will achieve the outcomes that are desired. This article presents a combination of …

Background Guidelines continue to be underutilized, and a variety of strategies to improve
their use have been suboptimal. Modifying guideline features represents an alternative, but …

Guidelines or diagnostic criteria in clinical practice assist physicians in their clinical decision-
making and improve health outcomes for patients. Diagnostic and classification criteria …

Background: Worldwide efforts are under way to improve the quality of clinical practice. Most
quality measurements, however, are poorly validated, expensive, and difficult to compare …

Background Audit and feedback interventions in healthcare have been found to be effective,
but there has been little progress with respect to understanding their mechanisms of action …

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 …