Adapting a large database of point of care summarized guidelines: a process description.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale, aims and objectives

Questions posed at the point of care (POC) can be answered using POC summarized guidelines. To implement a national POC information resource, we subscribed to a large database of POC summarized guidelines to complement locally available guidelines. Our challenge was in developing a sustainable strategy for adapting almost 1000 summarized guidelines. The aim of this paper was to describe our process for adapting a database of POC summarized guidelines.

Methods

An adaptation process based on the ADAPTE framework was tailored to be used by a heterogeneous group of participants. Guidelines were assessed on content and on applicability to the Belgian context. To improve efficiency, we chose to first aim our efforts towards those guidelines most impo

SUBMITTER: Delvaux N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5347856 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature