Title

Utilization of Clinical Practice Guidelines: Barriers and Facilitators

Authors

Melanie R. Keiffer, University of San FranciscoFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2015

Abstract

Key points

• Clinical practice guidelines are tools used to assist health care professionals in clinical decision making with the ultimate goal of improving patient care.

• Promoting the implementation of clinical practice guidelines at the point of care delivery is a hurdle to translating scientific findings into practice.

• As access to electronic evidence sources increase, the amount of evidence available to clinicians for clinical decision support is overwhelming.

• Increased adoption of electronic health records and clinical decision support tools will move clinical practice guidelines more rapidly to the patient encounter.

Comments

This work is a post-print version of an article published by Elsevier.

Published article available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cnur.2015.03.007

DOI

10.1016/j.cnur.2015.03.007

Recommended Citation

Melanie R. Keiffer, Utilization of Clinical Practice Guidelines: Barriers and Facilitators, Nursing Clinics of North America, Volume 50, Issue 2, June 2015, Pages 327-345, ISSN 0029-6465, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cnur.2015.03.007.