title: [Handbook for the preparation of evidence-based documents. Tools derived from scientific knowledge].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This handbook is intended to be an accessible, easy-to-consult guide to help professionals produce or adapt Evidence-Based Documents. Such documents will help standardize both clinical practice and decision-making, the quality always being monitored in such a way that established references are complied with.
  
  
  METHODS
  Evidence-Based Health Care Committee, a member of "Virgen del Rocío" University Hospital quality structure, proposed the preparation of a handbook to produce Evidence-Based Documents including: a description of products, characteristics, qualities, uses, methodology of production, and application scope of every one of them.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The handbook consists of seven Evidence-Based tools, one chapter on critical analysis methodology of scientific literature, one chapter with internet resources, and some appendices with different assessment tools.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This Handbook provides general practitioners with a great opportunity to improve quality and as a guideline to standardize clinical healthcare, and managers with a strategy to promote and encourage the development of documents in an effort to reduce clinical practice variability, as well as giving patients the opportunity of taking part in planning their own care.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Gestión Clínica del Bloque Quirúrgico del Hospital General, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla, España. mariareyescarrioncamacho@gmail.com
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Carrión-Camacho
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Martínez-Brocca
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Paneque-Sánchez-Toscano
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Valencia-Martín
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Palomino-García
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Muñoz-Durán
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Tamayo-López
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: González-Eiris-Delgado
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Otero-Candelera
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ortega-Ruiz
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Sobrino-Márquez
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jiménez-García-Bóveda
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fernández-Quero
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Campos-Pareja
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D014956:Writing / Q000592:standards*
keywords: Evidence-based practice; Gestión del conocimiento; Guía de práctica clínica; Guía de recursos; Knowledge management; Practice guideline; Práctica basada en la evidencia; Resources Guide