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Selecting and Implementing Clinical Practice Guidelines in Hospitals (2002) is a publication produced by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). The JCAHO developed this guide to help hospitals of all sizes and resource levels choose, adapt, and use clinical practice guidelines. Included are guideline appraisal tools and in-depth case studies showing how various organizations adapted and implemented national guidelines. For more information call JCAHO at (630) 792-5800 or visit their Web site: www.jcaho.org.
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Clinical Practice Guidelines are an important resource to the evidence-based clinician, but unfortunately, the standard of Clinical Practice Guideline development can be quite variable. This 1.5 hour workshop includes a lecture, quiz, practise activity and tool. It will aid you to critically appraise Clinical Practice Guidelines.
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Administrative and Clinical Practice Guidelines are available on BCNEPA's Provider Center in the Quality Management Section, accessible via the web-based NaviNet system or via www.bcnepa.com under the Provider tab. If you are unable to access the web-based guidelines and would like to request a hard copy, please call Ann Marie Wheeler at 570-200-4377, weekdays, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Process indicators for national guidelines are ... available upon request.
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Summary: The ADA Clinical Practice Guidelines are based on a complete review of the relevant literature by a diverse group of highly trained clinicians. After weighing the quality of evidence, from rigorous double-blind clinical trials to expert opinion, recommendations are drafted, reviewed, and submitted for approval to the ADA Executive Committee; they are then revised on a regular basis, and subsequently published in Diabetes Care.
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The Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Cancer Pain was commissioned by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR). It follows and makes reference to an earlier guideline on acute pain management after surgery or trauma... commissioned by AHRQ. The cancer pain guideline includes a section on the management of HIV positive/AIDS-related pain because of similarities in the sources of pain and the management approaches. This guideline is designed to help clinicians understand the assessment and treatment of cancer pain and associated symptoms. It reflects a multimodal approach to the management of pain, and it emphasizes the need for careful and continuous assessment to match interventions to the sources of pain in individual patients.
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The Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Cancer Pain was commissioned by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR). It follows and makes reference to a 1992 guideline on acute pain management after surgery or trauma... commissioned by AHCPR. This guideline is designed to help clinicians who work with oncology patients to understand the assessment and treatment of pain and associated symptoms. It also discusses briefly the management of pain in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and/or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
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