The process of producing a "NICE" guideline.
This paper describes the process of preparing a Clinical Guideline for "NICE", the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in the United Kingdom. The procedure involves the group appointed to prepare the guideline relating to the various "stakeholders" who have an interest on the one hand, and satisfying the fairly demanding standards set by NICE on the other. The strengths and limitations of the approach based on evidence based medicine are discussed.
Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, United Kingdom. davidpgoldberg@yahoo.com
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D017408:Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders; D009938:Organizations; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Q000592:standards; D006113:United Kingdom