Awareness, value and use of the Australian living guidelines for the clinical care of people with COVID-19: an impact evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

The Australian National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce is developing living, evidence-based, national guidelines for treatment of people with COVID-19. These living guidelines are updated each week. We undertook an impact evaluation to understand the extent to which health professionals providing treatment to people with COVID 19 were aware of, valued and used the guidelines, and the factors that enabled or hampered this.

Methods

A mixed methods approach was used for the evaluation. Surveys were conducted to collect both quantitative and qualitative data and were supplemented with qualitative interviews. Australian healthcare practitioners potentially providing care to individuals with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 were invited to participate

SUBMITTER: Millard T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8627590 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature