title: South African Guidelines Excellence (SAGE): Adopt, adapt, or contextualise?
abstract: Clinical practice guideline (CPG) activities must be planned carefully for efficient use of available resources and evidence-based implementation. De novo development of CPGs may sometimes 'recreate the wheel' and delay implementation. Three innovative alternatives to de novo CPG development (adopt, contextualise or adapt) are outlined, which have greater potential than de novo development to best use the limited available resources, personnel and time in settings such as South Africa.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Evidence-Based Health Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa; Center for Health Research and Movement Science, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines. dizonj@sun.ac.za.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Dizon
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Grimmer
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Louw
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kredo
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Young
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Machingaidze
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006295:Health Resources; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D013019:South Africa