[Physicians' opinions about the implementation of clinical practice guidelines for gastrointestinal oncology].
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.
Duclos
Antoine
A
Département d'Information Medicale, Hospices Civils de Lyon.
Trillet-Lenoir
Véronique
V
Chauvin
Franck
F
Colin
Cyrille
C
Touzet
Sandrine
S
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