Scope, content and quality of clinical pharmacy practice guidelines: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Guidelines for pharmacy practitioners regarding various clinical pharmacy activities have been published in a number of countries. There is a need to review the guidelines and identify the scope of activities covered as a prelude to developing internationally acceptable common guidelines.

Aim

To review the scope of clinical pharmacy guidelines and assess the extent to which these guidelines conform to quality standards as per the AGREE II instrument.

Method

Medline, Embase, Guideline Central, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, Google Scholar and Google (for grey literature) were searched for the period 2010 to January 2023. Guidelines which focused on any health care setting and any clinical pharmacy activity were included. Data were extracted and qual

SUBMITTER: Paudyal V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10830799 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature