Improving prioritization processes for clinical practice guidelines: new methods and an evaluation from the National Heart Foundation of Australia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Releasing timely and relevant clinical guidelines is challenging for organizations globally. Priority-setting is crucial, as guideline development is resource-intensive. Our aim, as a national organization responsible for developing cardiovascular clinical guidelines, was to develop a method for generating and prioritizing topics for future clinical guideline development in areas where guidance was most needed.

Methods

Several novel processes were developed, adopted and evaluated, including (1) initial public consultation for health professionals and the general public to generate topics; (2) thematic and qualitative analysis, according to the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), to aggregate topics; (3) adapting a criteria-based matrix tool to prior

SUBMITTER: Atkins B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10075165 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature