title: [Physicians' opinions about the implementation of clinical practice guidelines for gastrointestinal oncology].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the physicians' use of clinical practice guidelines (CPG) for gastrointestinal oncology.
  
  
  METHODS
  Quantitative study with semistructured individual interviews of 17 physicians treating patients with gastrointestinal cancer in the Rhone district of France.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The interviews identified 7 major themes: issues associated with development of the CPG; their usefulness in the physician-patient relationship; their ease of application; relevance of the specific topic; the procedures used for their development; the methods for disseminating them; and monitoring of their impact.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The physicians were relatively favorable to the CPG but stressed the need for greater transparency about related issues and effects, economic and legal, in particular, for dissemination through multiple and novel communication tools, and for assessment of their impact.
authors.affiliation: Département d'Information Medicale, Hospices Civils de Lyon.
authors.forename: Antoine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Duclos
authors.forename: Véronique
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Trillet-Lenoir
authors.forename: Franck
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chauvin
authors.forename: Cyrille
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Colin
authors.forename: Sandrine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Touzet
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005770:Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010820:Physicians; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic