Clinical practice guideline recommendations to improve the mental health of adult trauma patients: protocol for a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Mental disorders are common in adult patients with traumatic injuries. To limit the burden of poor psychological well-being in this population, recognised authorities have issued recommendations through clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). However, the uptake of evidence-based recommendations to improve the mental health of trauma patients has been low until recently. This may be explained by the complexity of optimising mental health practices and interpretating CGPs scope and quality. Our aim is to systematically review CPG mental health recommendations in the context of trauma care and appraise their quality.

Methods and analysis

We will identify CPG through a search strategy applied to Medline, Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO and Web of Science databases, as well a

SUBMITTER: Berube M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10966799 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature