The phrase "accept guidelines" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the act of agreeing to follow certain rules or instructions provided by someone or an organization.
Example: "Before starting the project, all team members must accept the guidelines set forth by the management."
Alternatives: "agree to the guidelines" or "acknowledge the guidelines".
Clinicians may be reluctant to accept guidelines because there are discrepancies between the recommendations of different guidelines, because guidelines are difficult to apply at a local level, or because of a perception that guidelines have not been incorporated into the system.
Pressing doctors to accept guidelines on the most beneficial and cost-effective way to treat patients, for instance, instead of leaving such decisions to individual doctors, could alienate the American Medical Assn.
However, guidelines at our institution were developed involving all stakeholders because prescribers should accept guidelines as professional support for decision-making rather than perceive them as an externally or administratively imposed tool for cost containment.
'Missing' recommendations or a lack of addressing issues believed to be important for clinical practice and for patients, influenced the providers' willingness to accept guidelines.
This assumption is probably based on thinking that no technical solution can be found within the present scope of the international intellectual property regime that could force patent-owners to accept guidelines set by international organizations.
Although clinical practice guidelines were identified by approximately one-third of survey respondents as the most important tool for delivering optimal care to their patients, only a quarter of respondents accept guidelines as the minimum level of evidence for determining an appropriate treatment regimen.
Ignorance of the guidelines' existence is common though seldom recognized, and a reluctance to accept guideline recommendations is also a real but little acknowledged problem.
1. Image compression using irreversible compression algorithms may be acceptable in diagnostic radiological imaging, if used according to accepted guidelines.
He said he was a victim of "organized harassment," adding that his treatment followed accepted guidelines.
There are no accepted guidelines about the current limit of either tDCS or tACS24,49,54.
The industry accepted guidelines for shop performance testing is the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASME Power Test Codede for compressors and exhausters.
