Adapting evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in Saudi Arabia: process and outputs of a national initiative.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We recently adapted the published National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnosis and management guideline to the Saudi Arabian context. It has been postulated that adaptation of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines to the local healthcare context rather than de-novo development will improve their adoption and implementation without imposing a significant burden on resources. The objective of this paper is to describe the adaptation process methodology utilized for the generation of the first national guideline for management of people with ADHD in Saudi Arabia.

Methods

We used the KSU-Modified-ADAPTE methodology for the guideline adaptation process. We describe the full process in detail in

SUBMITTER: Bashiri FA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7871371 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature