Collaborating with front-line healthcare professionals for improved guideline implementation

"The TDFI (Theoretical Domains Framework Implementation) approach improved the uptake of a patient safety guideline across three hospitals. The TDFI approach is clinically and cost effective in comparison to the usual practice."

Collaborating with front-line healthcare professionals: the clinical and cost effectiveness of a theory based approach to the implementation of a national guideline
N Taylor, et al.
BMC Health Services Research, 2014, 14:648

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Fertility: assessment and treatment for people with fertility problems

"This clinical guideline updates and replaces NICE clinical guideline 11 ‘Fertility’ (published February 2004). It offers evidence-based advice on the care and treatment of people with fertility problems."

CG156 Fertility: assessment and treatment for people with fertility problems
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
February 2013

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NICE Quality Standard: asthma

"This quality standard covers the diagnosis and treatment of asthma in adults, young people and children aged 12 months and older."

QS25 Asthma
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
February 2013

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The updating of clinical practice guidelines

"There is an urgent need to develop rigorous international standards for this process, and to minimise duplication of effort internationally."

The updating of clinical practice guidelines: insights from  international survey
P Alonso-Coello, L Martinez Garcia, JM Carrasco Gimeno, I Sola, S Qureshi, JS Burgers
Implementation Science, 2011, 6:107

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Do clinical guidelines reduce clinician dependent costs?

"The purpose of this review was to summarize recent evidence, relevant to both developed and developing countries on whether evidence based clinical guidelines can change hospitals variable costs which are clinician dependent, and the degree of financial savings achieved at hospital level."

Do clinical guidelines reduce clinician dependent costs?
G Kosimbei, K Hanson, M English
Health Research Policy and Systems, 2011, 9:24

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