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01.07.2015 | What's New in Intensive Care
Ten things you should consider before you believe a clinical practice guideline
verfasst von:
R. Jaeschke, G. H. Guyatt, H. Schünemann
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 7/2015
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Excerpt
Whenever somebody, particular any one in authority, provides guidance to somebody else, a recommendation is born. Similarly, when an authoritative group issues a number of recommendations at one time, healthcare providers are presented with new Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs). CPGs are defined today by World Health Organization as “recommendations intended to assist providers and recipients of health care and other stakeholders to make informed decisions” have been with us from the beginning of medicine. If you were to read a 30-year-old medical textbook, you would see, in essence, a description of facts accompanied by a multitude of recommendations. Although it cannot be said that these textbooks are CPGs, they do provide the essential function of CPGs. …