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, ...
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 ...
Clinical practice in the United States is marked by significant variation, leading in some cases to suboptimal quality of care and poor health outcomes. Despite the proliferation of clinical practice ...
Pregnancy and the first year postpartum - referred to as the peripartum period - are a period of tremendous physiological, psychological, and social changes in a woman's life. An estimated 1 in 5 ...
Burns can be among the most devastating of injuries. Following the formulation of practice guidelines (PGs) that addressed the care and management of burn injuries in developed countries, the ...
Improving Relative Survival, But Large Remaining Differences in Survival for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Across Europe and the United States From 1990 to 2004 NCCN uses a system of guideline development ...
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 ...
Guidelines sound like common sense—complex diseases present a host of complicating factors, and guidelines aid providers in readily navigating those factors to provide optimal treatment. But reality ...
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 ...
The Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Office at the Army's Medical Command is a busy place, tucked into a basement area of the MEDCOM headquarters building at Joint Base San Antonio, Fort Sam Houston. On ...
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 ...
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