Week 3: Introduction to Clinical
Practice Guidelines
What are clinical guidelines? (Course Manual, Evidence Based Nursing 219)
A form of evidence that summarizes information from multiple sources into one document
Systematically developed statements that assist health practitioners and clients to make
decision about what is the most appropriate care
Provide an outline of management options for a given health issue and provide the nurse
with preprocessed evidence, selected based on a systematic process for reviewing the
available clinical evidence
Where are clinical guidelines located in the 6s pyramid? (Course Manual)
Summaries
What is critiquing in terms of EIDM? (Course Manual)
Process of critical appraisal in which a person evaluates a source of evidence for the
scientific validity or merit of both the content and its application to practice
Are all practice guidelines of high quality? Why or why not? (Course Manual)
No
Practice guidelines may conflict with each other, and it is up to the user of the guideline to
decide which guideline is the best source of information
Which practice guidelines should you scrutinize to determine trustworthiness of the
guideline? (Evidence Based Nursing 219)
All sources
What is the AGREE instrument? How can it be used? (Evidence Based Nursing 221)
Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation Instrument
Used to appraise practice guidelines for their quality
Consists of 23 scale items in 6 domains, rating the guideline from 0-100 in each domain
Scope and Purpose
Practice Guidelines
What are clinical guidelines? (Course Manual, Evidence Based Nursing 219)
A form of evidence that summarizes information from multiple sources into one document
Systematically developed statements that assist health practitioners and clients to make
decision about what is the most appropriate care
Provide an outline of management options for a given health issue and provide the nurse
with preprocessed evidence, selected based on a systematic process for reviewing the
available clinical evidence
Where are clinical guidelines located in the 6s pyramid? (Course Manual)
Summaries
What is critiquing in terms of EIDM? (Course Manual)
Process of critical appraisal in which a person evaluates a source of evidence for the
scientific validity or merit of both the content and its application to practice
Are all practice guidelines of high quality? Why or why not? (Course Manual)
No
Practice guidelines may conflict with each other, and it is up to the user of the guideline to
decide which guideline is the best source of information
Which practice guidelines should you scrutinize to determine trustworthiness of the
guideline? (Evidence Based Nursing 219)
All sources
What is the AGREE instrument? How can it be used? (Evidence Based Nursing 221)
Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation Instrument
Used to appraise practice guidelines for their quality
Consists of 23 scale items in 6 domains, rating the guideline from 0-100 in each domain
Scope and Purpose
