PHIL 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: User Friendly, Diabetes Canada, Technology Acceptance Model
6 May 2020
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= systematically developed guidelines that can help guide the health care professional to make decisions about appropriate healthcare for patients. Use scientific evidence to provide specific guidance in health care practice. Provide evidence based recommendations in a user-friendly format. Consider the use of diagnostic tests, treatment interventions, adverse effects and costs and propose recommendations for clinical scenarios. Educate public on benefits and risks of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Facilitate education of physicians on decision making. Minimize variations in practice that may jeopardize quality of service and eliminate unnecessary costs. Hold practitioners accountable for their clinical decisions. Deny legitimate healthcare choices that may be used outside of the guidelines" recommendations. Allow health care professionals to withhold information from patients about available effective treatment alternatives beyond the guidelines" recommendations. 1st step = identify, prioritize and refine the subject area. Evidence is interpreted and translated into cpg. The grade system classifies the quality of evidence as high, moderate, low or very low.
