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Clinical Practice Guidelines: Supporting Decisions, Optimizing Care

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Pediatric Informatics

Part of the book series: Health Informatics ((HI))

Abstract

Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are repositories of high quality medical knowledge. During the past decade and a half, as techniques for distilling clinical knowledge from basic research have improved, data may be gathered efficiently and transformed in a timely basis into useful summaries of the best available evidence. CPGs are the subject of considerable interest in clinical medicine and informatics. Clinicians look to guidelines for credible assistance in resolving problems they face in daily practice.

Informaticians view guidelines as a mechanism to overcome the “knowledge acquisition bottleneck,” i.e., the extraction of knowledge from experts in a format that can be processed by computers. Other problems in CPG dissemination include selection of the “best” guideline on a particular topic when “competing” documents for management of common conditions are developed1 and the high cost of CPG development (US guidelines cost on average $100,000–200,0002 and require periodic updating).

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  1. Yale Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT

    Richard N. Shiffman MD MCIS FAAP

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  2. Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA

    Kevin B. Johnson MD MS FAAP

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Shiffman, R.N. (2009). Clinical Practice Guidelines: Supporting Decisions, Optimizing Care. In: Lehmann, C.U., Kim, G.R., Johnson, K.B. (eds) Pediatric Informatics. Health Informatics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76446-7_11

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