Locally adapted guidelines: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) often fail to be fully implemented in practice. One barrier to CPG implementation is inconsistency between recommendations and existing practice patterns. This can include patients, personnel, structure, availability of resources, cultural and ethical values. To account for this, it is feasible to tailor national CPGs to a regional or local context (e.g. hospital). Local ownership can be beneficial and help to implement the guideline without affecting guideline validity. This process is also known as guideline adaptation. We aimed to identify randomized controlled trials (RCTs) investigating the effectiveness of locally adapted CPGs.

Methods

We performed a scoping review, following the JBI guidance. The scoping review was regist

SUBMITTER: Pieper D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11927138 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature