Evidence-Based Practice / Unit 8 EBP 1107 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
Appraising a Clinical Practice Guideline
The idea
The technique: check it qualifies as an evidence-based guideline at all, read the panel and its interests, confirm each recommendation is graded and linked to its evidence, then judge relevance, feasibility, and the size of the change against this setting — and check the revision date before any of it.
In practice
A guideline from a professional body. Based on a systematic review; benefits, harms and alternatives assessed; revised within five years. Panel interdisciplinary, interests declared. Recommendations graded and linked. Two recommendations relevant here; one feasible, one requiring staffing the unit lacks. Adopted in part, with the gap recorded.
Where people slip
The revision date is checked first in practice and listed last here on purpose — it is the check most often skipped, and it can end the appraisal before it starts.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
- 1051What a Clinical Practice Guideline Is
- 1059Criterion One — Systematically Developed Statements
- 1064Criterion Six — Current Within Five Years
- 1072Recommendations Carry a Grade
- 1086Who Developed It?
- 1087Were All Options and Outcomes Considered?
- 1088Is Each Recommendation Tagged and Linked?
- 1090Peer Review and Testing
- 1091Is the Intent of Use Stated?
- 1092Are the Recommendations Relevant and Helpful?
- 1093Are They Practical and Feasible?
- 1094How Far From Current Practice?
- 1095The AGREE Instrument
- 1098AGREE Domain — Rigor of Development
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