The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis: an electronic guideline implementability appraisal.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinical guidelines are intended to improve healthcare. However, even if guidelines are excellent, their implementation is not assured. In subfertility care, the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) guidelines have been inventoried, and their methodological quality has been assessed. To improve the impact of the ESHRE guidelines and to improve European subfertility care, it is important to optimise the implementability of guidelines. We therefore investigated the implementation barriers of the ESHRE guideline with the best methodological quality and evaluated the used instrument for usability and feasibility.

Methods

We reviewed the ESHRE guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis to assess its implementability. We used an

SUBMITTER: van Dijk LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3034686 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature