How to Write a Guideline from Start to Finish
A Handbook for Healthcare Professionals
By- Richard Bowker, MA, MRCPCH, MB, BS, Paediatric Specialist Registrar, Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust, UK
- Monica Lakhanpaul, MB, BS, MRCP, MRCPCH, DM, Senior Lecturer in Child Health, University of Leicester, and Consultant Paediatrician, Leicester Specialist Community Children Services, UK
- Maria Atkinson, MB, ChB, MRCPCH, Clinical Research Fellow, Academic Divsion of Child Health, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK
- Kate Armon, DM, FRCPCH, MRCP, DCH, DRCOG, BM, BS, BMedSc, Consultant Paediatrician, Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, Norwich, UK
- Roderick MacFaul, FRCP, FRCPCH, DCH, Consultant Paediatrician, Pinderfields General Hospital, Wakefield, UK
- Terence Stephenson, DM, FRCP, FRCPCH, Professor of Child Health; Dean, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Medical School, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It provides a handbook for health professionals on the process of Guidelines preparation and implementation - from start to finish. It includes many real life examples of each step in the process as illustrated from existing Guidelines. Information is provided on how to access the extensive literature that is available throughout the world by inclusion of a comprehensive list of important sites - an extremely valuable and time-saving resource.
Paperback, 184 Pages
Published: December 2007
Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
ISBN: 978-0-443-10035-2
Contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction, M. Atkinson
Chapter 2. Developing a National Guideline, T. Stephenson
Chapter 3. Developing Local Guidelines, M. Atkinson
Chapter 4. Getting started or Working Back to Front, R. Bowker
Chapter 5. Forming Clinical Questions, R. Bowker
Chapter 6. Searching for Evidence, R.Bowker
Chapter 7. Critical Appraisal and Building Evidence Tables, R. Bowker
Chapter 8. Consensus Processes, K. Armon
Chapter 9. The Delphi Consensus Process, K. Armon
Chapter 10. Health Economics, H.-R. Douglas
Chapter 11. Making Recommendations, M. Lakhanpaul
Chapter 12. The Audit Package, R. MacFaul
Chapter 13. Appraisal, R. Bowker
Chapter 14. Dissemination and Implementation - or Getting the Message Across, M. Lakhanpaul
Chapter 15. Legal Issues, R. Bowker
Appendix 1: The AGREE Appraisal Instrument
Appendix 2: Care Pathways
Index
