title: Making sense of clinical guidelines.
abstract: In a companion article to their paper on clinical effectiveness (McClarey and Duff 1997), the authors discuss the issues surrounding clinical guidelines. How they are developed and how they can be adapted to local practice are described to allow practitioners to base their practice on the most up-to-date research evidence.
authors.affiliation: RCN DQI Programme, RCN Institute, Oxford.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: McClarey
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Duff
mesh_terms: D002985:Clinical Protocols; D006801:Humans; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care