title: Bridging the gap between theory and practice: exploring clinical practice guidelines. National Quality of Care Forum.
abstract: The National Quality of Care Forum zeroes in on guidelines and the challenges of implementation in part two of a three-year collaboration between the American Hospital Association and the Parke-Davis Division of the Warner-Lambert Company. Two overviews of the literature and two first-hand reports of experience "bridge the gap" for health care professionals.
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D006291:Health Policy; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services; D008910:Minnesota; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States