Evidence-based interventions, such as educational strategies, clinical practice guidelines, and audit and feedback, are ...

Hospital leaders agree: Evidence-based care protocols to guide how care is delivered are becoming the new norm. Putting guidelines in place can improve patient safety, streamline methods of care, ...

An ad hoc committee under the auspices of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will develop a framework to evaluate existing clinical practice guidelines for prescribing ...

Evidence-based guidelines are needed to determine appropriate follow-up intervals for chronic medical conditions to maximize the quality of patient care and minimize unnecessary costs. Although there ...

At most major medical centers, Orthopaedic Grand Rounds are lectures given by orthopaedic surgeons of national and international prominence, providing opportunities for faculty, residents, and fellows ...

One of the most consistent findings in health services research is the gap between evidence and practice (Grol and Grimshaw, 2003). Consistent, safe, evidence-based health care has become a major goal ...

Multiinstitutional home-therapy trial of recombinant human interleukin-2 and interferon alfa-2 in progressive metastatic renal cell carcinoma. The guidelines development tool, the Practice Guidelines ...

Author weighs evidence-based medicine vs experience and common sense when treating a patient with Alzheimer disease and cold symptoms. A 90-year-old friend of mine (Mr W) is the primary caregiver for ...

Melissa J. Armstrong receives funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ K08HS24159) for research on patient engagement in clinical practice guidelines and she serves an ...

Many common nursing practices derive from tradition rather than empirical evidence that they are effective, according to an article in Critical Care Nurse. The researchers, led by Mary Beth Flynn ...

There’s plenty of area of legitimate debate in clinical psychology and allied fields, such as psychiatry, social work, and counseling, but at least one proposition should not be particularly ...