Dissemination and Adoption of Guidelines: The Experience of Community Care of North Carolina.
Dissemination and adoption of practice guidelines has the potential to improve the health of a population. However, these processes are complex and take place in the context of a myriad of factors that impact patient and provider behaviors. Therefore, successful strategies-like the ones utilized by Community Care of North Carolina-need to be multifaceted.
primary care pediatrician, Wake County Human Services; medical director, Community Care of Wake and Johnston Counties, Raleigh, North Carolina btilson@wakedocs.org.
Elizabeth Cuervo
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Tilson
D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006801:Humans; D009657:North Carolina; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D058996:Quality Improvement