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Utilization Of Clinical Practice Guidelines: Barriers And Facilitators, Melanie R. Keiffer
Utilization Of Clinical Practice Guidelines: Barriers And Facilitators, Melanie R. Keiffer
Nursing and Health Professions Faculty Research and Publications
Key points
• Clinical practice guidelines are tools used to assist health care professionals in clinical decision making with the ultimate goal of improving patient care.
• Promoting the implementation of clinical practice guidelines at the point of care delivery is a hurdle to translating scientific findings into practice.
• As access to electronic evidence sources increase, the amount of evidence available to clinicians for clinical decision support is overwhelming.
• Increased adoption of electronic health records and clinical decision support tools will move clinical practice guidelines more rapidly to the patient encounter.