Simultaneous development of guidelines and quality indicators -- how do guideline groups act? A worldwide survey.

  • Eva Blozik
  • Monika Nothacker
  • Thomas Bunk
  • Joachim Szecsenyi
  • Günter Ollenschläger
  • Martin Scherer

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine the question of how official bodies, health care organisations, and professional associations deal with the absence of a methodological gold standard for the simultaneous development of clinical practice guidelines and quality indicators, what procedures they use and what they feel are major strengths and limitations of their methods.

Bibliografische Daten

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer8
DOIs
StatusVeröffentlicht - 2012
pubmed 23276064