title: Does evidence-based medicine help the development of clinical practice guidelines?
abstract: Formal methods for the development of clinical practice guidelines have emerged to address societal needs to decrease physician practice variation, slow the rise of health-care costs, monitor inappropriate care, assist clinicians to stay abreast of new clinical information, set research priorities, and promote better health-care outcomes. Evidence-based methods ensure that guidelines provide valid recommendations based on a critical appraisal of the best available evidence rather than informal, opinion-based processes.
authors.affiliation: University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Phoenix, USA. jheffner@mha.chw.edu
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Heffner
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States