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Welcome This newly minted website is made for primary care physicians all over the world. Make it the place to go for all your evidence-based information needs. Thank you.
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Goals
i. To provide primary care providers with a one-stop shop for guidelines on commonly seen topics
ii. To prevent duplication of effort by making the scientific community aware of guidelines created by other organizations
iii. To initiate discussion on the differences seen between guidelines on the same topic
iv. To improve patient care
ii. To prevent duplication of effort by making the scientific community aware of guidelines created by other organizations
iii. To initiate discussion on the differences seen between guidelines on the same topic
iv. To improve patient care
Introduction
The standard definition of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) are, " Systematically developed statements to assist practitioners and patient decisions about appropriate healthcare for specific circumstances" (Field and Lohr 1990). CPGs are made by a number of national and international organizations. Although the intent of these organizations are good, the sheer volume of guidelines creates many problems. Physicians are unsure if the guideline they have chosen to read is the best one out there, has information different from another organization or if it is updated. This uncertainty creates less confidence in the guideline and the physician walks away not fully satisfied. On the other spectrum, many physicians are unaware that guidelines exist for commonly seen conditions. This website is intended to alleviate this problem by presenting primary care providers with one resource that contains the most up-to-date, exhaustive and highest quality guidelines from the major organizations across the world. You can feel confident that the information found here is comprehensive and robust. This website will not list every guideline or article on a specific topic as that would be information overload. Only the best available will be shown and continually updated. The health topics chosen are based on what is most commonly seen in primary care. Guidelines do exist for many health topics not a part of this website but to keep this site as simple and user-friendly as possible, only topics important to primary care providers will be posted.
How to use website
It is very simple. You can either go to the CPG websites page and find a specific guideline from the databases provided by the major organizations or under each health topic on this website you will find all pertinent information in one place divided into 3 main sections,
1) Websites - This will get you to the specific guideline section on a website. NICE pathways are an excellent resource.
2) Documents - Downloadable and printable resources. Types of documents include full guideline, executive summaries, one pagers, etc.
3) Health News Feeds - Most of the feeds are from MedicalNewsToday, a website that brings hourly news updates from well known journals such as BMJ, JAMA and Lancet.
4) ***NEW - Video summaries of the current state-of-knowledge on each topic. Asthma and COPD videos are available.
1) Websites - This will get you to the specific guideline section on a website. NICE pathways are an excellent resource.
2) Documents - Downloadable and printable resources. Types of documents include full guideline, executive summaries, one pagers, etc.
3) Health News Feeds - Most of the feeds are from MedicalNewsToday, a website that brings hourly news updates from well known journals such as BMJ, JAMA and Lancet.
4) ***NEW - Video summaries of the current state-of-knowledge on each topic. Asthma and COPD videos are available.
Brief videos about the website
Primary Care Guidelines was established November 2012.
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