Developing clinical guidelines

This useful very useful article, Developing clinical practice guidelines: reviewing, reporting, and publishing guidelines; updating guidelines; and the emerging issues of enhancing guideline implementability and accounting for comorbid conditions in guideline development by Paul Shekelle et al., has been published provisionally in open access.

The methods of guideline development have progressed both in terms of methods and necessary procedures and the context for guideline development has changed with the emergence of guideline clearing houses and large scale guideline production organisations (such as the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence).  The authors discuss the issues of reviewing, reporting, updating and publishing guidelines, how to implement them, and dealing with patients having co-morbid conditions.

Implementation Science 2012, 7:62 doi:10.1186/1748-5908-7-62