Translating Clinical Guidelines Into Practice: Challenges and Opportunities in a Dynamic Health Care Environment.
Clinical practice guidelines are evidence-based recommendations with the potential to improve population health, yet they remain inconsistently utilized. In this commentary we discuss barriers and drivers to implementing clinical practice guidelines. We also suggest ways to support their translation into practice.
fellow, Center for Public Health Quality, Raleigh, North Carolina; clinical instructor, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina emily.v@phquality.org.
Emily B
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Vander Schaaf
associate professor, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Carl J
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Seashore
director, Center for Public Health Quality, Raleigh, North Carolina; professor, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Greg D
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Randolph
D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic