Informing Practice with Evidence

Informing Practice with Evidence
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Table of Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................3
Main Context.........................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................................15
References...........................................................................................................................................17
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Introduction
The Institute of Medicine has described the clinical practice guidelines as the statements
which include a recommendation for optimizing patients care informed by the systematic
evidence review and an assessment of the harms and benefits of the alternative care options
(Crosby, 2011). The guidelines need to be developed by multidisciplinary experts on the
basis of systematic review evidence in order to provide an appropriate description of the
logical relationship between health outcomes and alternative care. The guidelines provide a
huge benefit to the patients by decreasing unnecessary or ineffective interventions and
ensuring greater consistency in care. The guidelines promote the development of secondary
material implementation to further support informed decision making and patient education.
The guidelines are being used by the clinicians for making decisions based on the quality
improvement efforts, support coverage for proper services and best evidence. It has assisted
to bridge the gap between best practice, policy, patient choice and local contexts. It is
considered to be one of the most essential parts for enhancing the quality of healthcare
practices. The main focus would be examining the clinical guidelines, developing the
guideline, implementing the guideline and appraising the guideline (Graham, 2011).
Main Context
Guidelines
Clinical practice guidelines are referred to as the systematically developed statements for
assisting patient and healthcare practitioners within the healthcare industry (Henry., 2013).
The statement consisted of recommendations that relied on the evidence from the systematic
review and combination of published healthcare literatures. It includes statements of expected
healthcare practices, comparing and improving the practices and setting a standard or
benchmarks for carrying out the audit process. The healthcare organizations always focus on
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improving the quality of the healthcare practices and it can be achieved with the
implementation of appropriate guidelines (Hoffman, Bennett & Del Mar 2019).
The clinical practice guidelines are being used for decreasing inappropriate variations in
healthcare practices and promoting the delivery of evidence-based and high-quality
healthcare processes (Hoffmann, Bennett & Del Mar 2017). It provides a mechanism with
the help of which healthcare practitioners can be made accountable for clinical activities. In
the field of medicine, the use of the guidelines has been increased as a mean to facilitate
evidence-based practice. The guidelines are very much effective in changing the behavior of
midwives, nurses and other health professionals. It is being used for improving the health
outcomes for the patients by providing a framework within which the work should be carried
out. The patients sometimes receive different care as it depends on the hospital, clinician or
location.
The guideline ensures that the patients should receive care in an apporpriate manner
irrespective of whom or where they are treated. The clinicians are being appropriately guided
who are not sure how to proceed, achieve consistency of care and following the treatment
policies (John, Irukulla, Mendall&Abulafi, 2009). It creates a boundary between harms and
benefits which becomes easy for the healthcare professionals to carry out their healthcare
practices. The healthcare organizations and government bodies have also found that clinical
guidelines are very much effective in decreasing cost and improving healthcare outcomes. It
has also given attention to unrecognized clinical services, health issue, neglected patient
populations, high-risk groups, and preventive interventions. It assists to determine dangerous,
wasteful and ineffective practices and reinforce the techniques of critical appraisal.
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