THE EM GUIDELINES MISSION &
VISION
Finding and bringing high-quality EM guidelines worldwide to your bedside...We search the world literature and specialty organizations for EM-relevant guidelines, critically evaluate them and present them to EM physicians for potential use in clinical practice...
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(1) Closing the evidence-to-bedside knowledge translation gap using higher-order guideline evidence to inform EM practice
(2) Allowing author groups an opportunity to share their new guidelines with a global EM audience
(3) Providing guidance for prospective author groups to create high-quality guidelines using globally accepted tools
WHAT IS A CPG & WHY DOES IT MATTER?
Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are statements that include recommendations intended to optimize patient care that are informed by a systematic review of evidence and an assessment of the benefits and harms of alternative care options (IOM 2011). Health care guidelines and their appropriate implementation are of interest to national organizations, professional societies, health care providers, policy-makers, patients and the public (CMAJ 2014).
Properly developed, they represent a higher order integration of medical evidence, clinical experience/judgment and stakeholder values/preferences.
THE EM GUIDELINES CPG RETRIEVAL & SELECTION PROCESS
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(1) Searching global CPG resources…EM literature, EM specialty organizations, Guideline organizations (GIN, NGC, SIGN, etc.) and beyond...
(2) Relevance for EM practice
(3) Quality assessment (JAMA IOM criteria 2015)
(4) Condense and summarize for EMGuidelines audience!!
QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF GUIDELINES GRADING SYSTEM
The NEATS (National Guideline Clearinghouse Extent of Adherence toTrustworthy Standards) Instrument is a new rating tool published in 2019,and is intended to assess of CPG compliance with the Institute of MedicineTrustworthiness 2011 Standards
THE EM GUIDELINES TEAM