TRAUMA: making trauma clinical guidance more implementable.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Trauma clinical guidance (guidelines, protocols, algorithms, etc) has been shown to improve patient outcomes; however, it is only used in about half of the patients to whom it applies. Guidance implementation is affected by intrinsic factors (eg, guidance format) as well as extrinsic factors (eg, the clinical environment). Recommendations and frameworks have been created to aid in the development of implementable guidance. We hypothesize that existing trauma clinical guidance lacks elements important for implementation.

Methods

The Framework for Guideline Implementability by Gagliardi, which consists of 22 elements arranged into eight domains, was used to evaluate trauma clinical guidance. A sample of 20 pieces of guidance, crafted by 11 professional organizatio

SUBMITTER: Wilson DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12414163 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature