Reviewing clinical guideline development tools: features and characteristics.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To improve consistency and streamline development and publication of clinical guidelines (GL), there is a need for appropriate software support. We have found few specific tools for the actual authoring and maintaining of GLs, and correspondingly few analyses or reviews of GL development tool functionality. In order to assist GL developers in selecting and evaluating tools, this study tries to address the perceived gap by pursuing four goals: 1) identifying available tools, 2) reviewing a representative group of tools and their supported functionalities, 3) uncovering themes of features that the studied tools support, and 4) compare the selected tools with respect to the themes.

Methods

We conducted a literature search using PubMed and Google Scholar in order to f

SUBMITTER: Khodambashi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5584508 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature