How to improve the dissemination of clinical practice guidelines in the Brazilian Unified Health System? Report of a pilot project.

ABSTRACT: In Brazil, there have been some initiatives to improve the development of Ministry of Health clinical protocols and therapeutic guidelines (PCDTs in Portuguese, and clinical practice guidelines-CPGs, in English) and their implementation so that best practices can be disseminated and adopted at multiple levels of health systems. One of the initiatives was to conduct a pilot project to improve the format of these CPGs. The objective of this article is to present the processes and results of the pilot project, including the development of a new standardized format for CPGs to promote national dissemination and uptake. The pilot project was designed in three phases: identification and selection of strategies to effectively implement clinical practice guidelines, definition of the ideal charact

SUBMITTER: Pereira VC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10035473 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature