Guidelines for Guideline Development

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 878-881

  Royal, Henry ^a   Pierson Jr , Richard ^b   Fletcher, James ^c   Dillehay, Gary ^d   Smith, Wendy ^e  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^c S LOUIS UNIV HLTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^d LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Society of Nuclear Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Practice Guidelines

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

HUMANS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030136921     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Eddy DM. A manual for assessing health care practices and designing practice policies: the explicit approach. Philadelphia: American College of Physicians, 1992. A step-by-step guide of the guideline development process.
2. Fields MJ, Lohr KN, eds. Clinical practice guidelines. Directions for a new program. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences; 1990. Monograph by an Institute of Medicine committee that describes the desired attributes of practice guidelines. These attributes include: validity, reliability and reproducibility, clinical applicability, clinical flexibility, clarity, multidisciplinary process, scheduled review and documentation.
3. Fields MJ, Lohr KN, eds. Guidelines for clinical practice. From development to use. Washington, DC: institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences; 1992. Monograph by an Institute of Medicine committee that describes the guideline development process and strateies for effectively implementing guidelines.
4. Hayward RSA, Wilson MC, Tunis SR, et al. More informative abstracts describing clinical practice guidelines. Ann Intern Med 1993;118:731-737. The authors propose the use of a structured abstract when clinical practice guidelines are published.
5. Hyams AL, Brandenburg JA, Lipsitz Sr, et al. Practice guidelines and malpractice litigation: a two-way street. Ann Intern Med 1995;122:450-455. The authors reviewed insurance claims and surveyed attorneys to determine the effects of guidelines on malpractice litigation.
6. Kapp MB. The legal status of clinical practice parameters: an updated annotated bibliography. Am J Med Qual 1995;2:107-111. Annotated bibliography of references on the liability implications for health care providers who develop and disseminate guidelines.
7. McDonald CJ, Overhage JM. Guidelines you can follow and trust. An ideal and an example. JAMA 1994;271:872-873. Editorial prompted by concurrent publication of a guideline describing the "rules" for deciding if ankle radiographs are necessary.
8. Woolf SH. Interim mannal for clinical practice guideline development. Public Health Service, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, AHCPR publ. 91-0018. A step-by-step manual for the guideline development process.
9. Woolf SH. Practice guidelines, a new reality in medicine: I. Recent developments. Arch Intern Med 1990;150:1811-1818. A three-part introduction to practice guidelines. The author has served as a consultant to the SNM.
10. Woolf SH. Practice guidelines, a new reality in medicine: II. Methods of developing guidelines. Arch Intern Med 1992;152:946-952. See above.
11. Woolf SH. Practice guidelines, a new reality in medicine: III. Impact on patient care. Arch Intern Med 1993;153:2646-2655. See above.
12. Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. Evidence-based medicine: a new approach to teaching the practice of medicine. JAMA 1992;268:2420-2425. A thoughtful introduction to what is meant by evidence based medicine.