Question

Think about a recent clinical experience. What clinical practice guideline(s) would have been helpful? Search the National Guidelines Clearinghouse for a clinical practice guideline that you could have used in that experience. Download and complete the Rapid Critical Appraisal of Evidence-Based Guidelines (Word) to critique the quality of the guideline. Would this guideline be useful in your practice? Would the staff that you work with be receptive to using the clinical guideline on your unit? Submit the completed critique form with your answers to numbers 2 and 3 above.

Answer 1

The  AHRQ clinical practice Guidelines will be helpful in practice because it includes the credibility and applicablity of evidences in practice. All evidences are retrieved from systematic review and are found to be best evidence applicable in client care decision making.The Rapid Critical Appraisal of Evidence-Based Guidelines is given here to asess the quality of guideline. This guideline will be useful in practice setting and the staff will be receptive to use the same on their care unit.

Rapid Critical Appraisal of Evidence-Based Guidelines

	Credibility
1	Who were the guideline developers?(specify)	AHRQ
2	Were the developers representative of stake holders?	yes	no	unknown
3	Who funded the development of guideline?	US Dept of HFW
4	Were any of the guideline developers funded researchers of the reviewed studies?.	yes	no	unknown
5	Did the team had a valid development strategy?	yes	no	unknown
6	Was an explicit.sensible,Impartial process used to identify,select and combine evidence?	yes	no	unknown
7	Did it developers carry a comprehensive,Reproducible Literature review within in past 12 months of its publication/revision?.	yes	no	unknown
8	Were all important outcomes are considered?	yes	no	unknown
9	Is each recommendation in the guideline is tagged by level of strength /evidenceupon which it is based and linked with scientific evidence.?	yes	no	unknown
10	Do the guideline make explicit recommendation.?	yes	no	unknown
11	Has the guideline been subjected to peer testing and review.?	yes	no	unknown
	Applicability/Generalizibity
12	Is the intent of use provided?(National,Regional,Local)?	yes	no	unknown
13	Are the recommendations clinically relevant?	yes	no	unknown
14	Will the recommendations help in caring clients?	yes	no	unknown
15	Are the recommendations practical/Feasible?	yes	no	unknown
16	Are the recommendations a major variation from current practice?	yes	no	unknown
17	Can the outcomes be measured through standard care	yes	no	unknown

Reference:

Modified from slutsky .J(2005)using evidence based guideline : A tool for improving practice.