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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-6-6
pubmed:abstractText
Organized medicine, insurance companies, regulators, and the peer review organizations are all interested in practice guidelines. Recently, the U.S. Congress established the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, which is charged with overseeing the development of practice guidelines. If properly developed, disseminated, and used, practice guidelines should reduce the incidence of inappropriate care and help control costs. Although guidelines have been used by physicians for years, guidelines now being developed should be more comprehensive, specific, exhaustive, and--on the basis of the best scientific evidence of effectiveness and expert opinion--more effectively discriminate between useful and useless care. Practice guidelines can improve the quality of care when used voluntarily by physicians in practice, when used as standards for quality monitoring and assurance programs, and when used as the basis for reimbursement for services. All interested parties should share responsibilities for the research, development, and production of appropriateness criteria, their translation into guidelines and standards, and the dissemination and maintenance of the guidelines, including evaluation, revision, and updating.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0097-5990
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
16
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
42-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-2-20
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Practice guidelines and standards: an overview.
pubmed:affiliation
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article