An ad hoc committee under the auspices of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will develop a framework to evaluate existing clinical practice guidelines for prescribing ...

Over the past two decades, the Canadian Stroke Best Practice Recommendations (CSBPR) have played a leading role in ...

Hospital leaders agree: Evidence-based care protocols to guide how care is delivered are becoming the new norm. Putting guidelines in place can improve patient safety, streamline methods of care, ...

The American Gastroenterological Association's (AGA) new evidence-based Clinical Practice Guideline on Endoscopic Eradication Therapy of Barrett's Esophagus and Related Neoplasia, published today in ...

Any guideline-promulgating body must use a universal methodology to facilitate the job of holding guidelines to a rigorous standard. Health care providers often treat the same illnesses differently.

We aim to provide transparency in how Elevance Health plans address variations in clinical practices to ensure safe, high-quality, clinically appropriate, and accessible care delivery across diverse ...

Reducing care variation is central to health systems’ broader efforts to improve patient outcomes and operational efficiency. But aligning physicians around evidence-based practice — especially when ...

New guidelines on sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) recommend ways to reduce SUDEP risk and advise neurologists on how to counsel patients and families. Generalized tonic-clonic seizures ...

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, progressive-fibrosing interstitial lung disease of unknown origin that affects 3 million people worldwide and imparts substantial burdens to patients, ...

Author weighs evidence-based medicine vs experience and common sense when treating a patient with Alzheimer disease and cold symptoms. A 90-year-old friend of mine (Mr W) is the primary caregiver for ...