Perceptions of Guidelines in Primary and Secondary Care: Implications for Implementation

Abstract

Get full access to this article

View all access options for this article.

References

Secretary of State for Scotland. Designed to Care. Edinburgh: The Stationery Office, 1997.

Greenhalgh

“Is my practice evidence-based?” should be answered in qualitative, as well as quantitative terms. BMJ 1996;313: 957–958.

Haynes

. Some Problems in Applying Evidence in Clinical Practice. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1993;703: 210–224.

Hopkins

Some reservations about clinical guidelines. Archives of disease in childhood. 1995;72: 70–75.

Hadorn

Baker

Hodges

Hicks

Rating the quality of evidence for clinical practice guidelines. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 1996;49: 749–754.

SIGN (Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network). http://show.cee.hw.ac.uk/sign.

Petrie

Grimshaw

Bryson

The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network Initiative: getting validated guidelines into local practice. Health Bulletin 1995;53: 345–348.

Anderson

Wheeler

Goldberg

Physician practices in the prevention of thromboembolism. Annals of Internal Medicine 1991;115:591–595.

Alessi

Bula

Gold

Yukas

Nisenbaum

Rubenstein

A trial of annual in-home comprehensive geriatric assessments for elderly people living in the community. New England Journal of Medicine 1995;333: 1184–1189.

10.

Richards

Disease management in Europe. BMJ 1998;317: 426–427.

11.

Cotton

Ross

Sullivan

Protocol development: attitudes among GPs and practice nurses. Practice Nursing 1997;8: 21–23.

12.

Siriwardena

. Clinical guidelines in primary care: a survey of general practitioners' attitudes and behaviour. British Journal of General Practice 1995;45: 643–648.

13.

Field

Lohr

. Guidelines for clinical practice: from development to use. Washington DC: Institute of Medicine, National Academic Press, 1992.

14.

Grimshaw

Russell

. Achieving health gain through clinical guidelines II: ensuring guidelines change medical practice. Quality in Health Care 1994;3: 45–52.

15.

Bero

Grilli

Grimshaw

Harvey

Oxman

, eds. Cochrane Collaboration on Effective Professional Practice Module of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Cochrane Library 1997;3.

16.

Feder

Eccles

Grol

Griffiths

Grimshaw

Using clinical guidelines. BMJ 1999;318: 728–730.

17.

Lydeard

The questionnaire as a research tool. Family Practice 1991;8: 84–91.

18.

Naylor

. Grey zones of clinical practice: some limits to evidence-based medicine. Lancet 1995;345: 840–842.

19.

Hopkins

Some reservations about clinical guidelines. Archives of disease in childhood. 1995;72: 70–75.

20.

Hurwitz

Protocols, guidelines and the law of negligence. Clinical Risk. 1995;1: 142–146.

21.

Buckley

West

A safe path or a legal minefield?

Health Bulletin. 1998;56: 848–850.

22.

Grimshaw

Russell

. Achieving health gain through clinical guidelines II: ensuring guidelines change medical practice. Quality in Health Care 1994;3: 45–52.

23.

Vadher

Patterson

DLH

Leaning

Evaluation of a decision support system for initiation and control of oral anticoagulation in a randomised trial. BMJ 1997;314: 1252–1256.

24.

Rind

Davis

Ives

Sands

Currier

Slack

Guidelines for the management of HIV infection with computer-based patient's record. Lancet 1995;346: 341–346.

25.

Wyatt

Walton

Computer based prescribing improves decision making and reduces costs. BMJ 1996;311: 1181–1182.

26.

Acute Services Review: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/frame21.htm.

27.

Owen

Robling

. Why general practitioners and consultants change their clinical practice: a critical incident study. BMJ 1997;314: 870–874.