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A Clinical Practice Guideline

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After extensive inquiry and backlash against the historic recommendation-based clinical practice guidelines, the Institute of Medicine, and others, called for a revision of the recommendation-based clinical practice guidelines. The new guidelines were to be evidence-based. A rigorous rubric was created to standardize the development process of future clinical practice guidelines. These evidence-based clinical practice guidelines are designed to stand certain scrutiny their recommendation-based predecessors could not, improve the quality of health care, decrease inefficiencies, and reduce practice variation. Through the extensive and deliberate analysis of high-quality medical literature, clinical practice guidelines provide evidence-supported health-care plans for physicians and patients alike. As clinical practice guidelines serve as a summary of scientific evidence available, those areas which lack adequate clinical research may become research priority.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, USA

    Aleksei Dingel & Kevin Shea

  2. American Academy for Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), Norridge, IL, USA

    Jayson Murray & Deborah Cummins

  3. Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    James Carey

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  1. UPMC Rooney Sports Complex, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Volker Musahl

  2. Department of Orthopaedics, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Jón Karlsson

  3. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Kantonsspital Baselland (Bruderholz, Laufen und Liestal), Bruderholz, Switzerland

    Michael T. Hirschmann

  4. McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    Olufemi R. Ayeni

  5. Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, USA

    Robert G. Marx

  6. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL, USA

    Jason L. Koh

  7. Institute for Medical Science in Sports, Osaka Health Science University, Osaka, Japan

    Norimasa Nakamura

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Dingel, A., Murray, J., Carey, J., Cummins, D., Shea, K. (2019). A Clinical Practice Guideline. In: Musahl, V., et al. Basic Methods Handbook for Clinical Orthopaedic Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-58254-1_52

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