Implementing clinical guidelines: how can informatics help?
Clinical guidelines are heralded as a positive contribution to improving quality of care and ensuring the effectiveness of care. From the perspective of the health services researcher, the authors propose a model of how informatics can support the implementation of clinical guidelines and their integration into systems for decision support and clinical audit. Each element of the model is discussed in turn.
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Royal College of Nursing, London, England. lesley.duff@rcn.org.uk
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D006284:Health Plan Implementation / Q000379:methods; D008490:Medical Informatics; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic