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Practice guidelines: pedantic pontification or pragmatic progress? 2003 Ryley-Jeffs Memorial Lecture.
1Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Summary
Dietitians of Canada developed a new framework to improve the quality and application of dietetic practice guidelines. This framework ensures credible, feasible, and applicable guidelines for health professionals.
Area of Science:
- Dietetics
- Health Services Research
- Evidence-Based Practice
Background:
- Practice guidelines are crucial for translating research into practice.
- Growing demand for cost justification and outcome demonstration in healthcare.
- Concerns exist regarding the quality and impact of existing practice guidelines.
Discussion:
- Dietitians of Canada formed a task group to address guideline quality and development.
- Reviewed existing guideline programs to identify essential elements for dietetics.
- Focused on credibility, feasibility, and applicability in clinical, administrative, and public health settings.
Key Insights:
- A new Dietetic Practice Guidelines Framework was developed using the Delphi process.
- The framework comprises 34 elements guiding the entire development process.
- Key stages include topic nomination, systematic literature review, group judgment, and pilot testing.
Outlook:
- Enhance the development and implementation of dietetic practice guidelines.
- Promote consistent and high-quality evidence-based care in dietetics.
- Foster greater trust and influence of guidelines in professional practice.