Approaches of integrating the development of guidelines and quality indicators: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Guidelines and quality indicators (for example as part of a quality assurance scheme) aim to improve health care delivery and health outcomes. Ideally, the development of quality indicators should be grounded in evidence-based, trustworthy guideline recommendations. However, anecdotally, guidelines and quality assurance schemes are developed independently, by different groups of experts who employ different methodologies. We conducted an extension and update of a previous systematic review to identify, describe and evaluate approaches to the integrated development of guidelines and related quality indicators.

Methods

On May 24th, 2019 we searched in Medline, Embase and CINAHL and included studies if they reported a methodological approach to guideline-based qualit

SUBMITTER: Langendam MW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7493171 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature