Prehospital providers' perspectives for clinical practice guideline implementation and dissemination: Strengthening guideline uptake in South Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2016 the first African emergency care clinical practice guideline (CPG) was developed for national uptake in the prehospital sector in South Africa, with implementation starting in 2018. Comprehensive uptake of CPGs post development is not a given, as this requires effective and efficient dissemination and implementation strategies that take into account the perceptions, barriers and facilitators of the local end-users. This study aimed to identify prehospital end-users' perceptions of the emergency care guidelines, including barriers and facilitators for national decision makers, to strengthen CPG uptake in South Africa.

Methods

Our study employed a descriptive qualitative research design, including nine focus groups with 56 operational emergency care provider

SUBMITTER: McCaul M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6645495 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature