Systematically developed statements that assist practitioners and patients with decision making about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances.
Utilization and quality management mechanisms designed to aid providers in making decisions about the most appropriate course of treatment for a specific clinical case.
a systematically developed statement to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care for one or more specific clinical circumstances. The development of clinical practice guidelines can be considered to be a particular type of HCTA; or, it can be considered to be one of the types of policymaking that is informed or supported by HCTA.
A set of systematically developed statements, usually based on scientific evidence, to assist practitioners and patient decision making about appropriate healthcare for specific clinical circumstances. (Synonyms: practice guidelines, guidelines, practice parameters.)
A set of systematically developed statements or recommendations designed to assist health care professionals and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances. Such guidelines are designed to assist in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of specific clinical conditions.
Reports written by experts who have carefully studied whether a treatment works and which patients are most likely to be helped by it.
Guidelines developed to help healthcare professionals and patients make decisions about screening, prevention, or treatment of a specific health condition.
Protocols based on the most current scientific findings, clinical expertise and community standards of practice that assist the practitioner in determining appropriate health care for specific situations.
A general term for statements of accepted medical procedure for a particular diagnosis.
