Developing policies and guidelines.
Practice guidelines are proliferating in the era of managed care. Hospital epidemiologists frequently are asked to author guidelines of infection control. The greatest challenge in the process is not writing the guidelines but implementing them. This article offers practical advice on which topic to select and on how to develop and implement guidelines.
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, USA.
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D003363:Cost Control; D004813:Epidemiology; D006284:Health Plan Implementation / Q000458:organization & administration; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000592:standards*; D017053:Infection Control / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards*; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D011050:Policy Making; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012015:Reference Standards; D014481:United States