The phrase "adapting guidelines" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the process of modifying or adjusting existing guidelines to better fit a specific situation or need.
Example: "The team is focused on adapting guidelines to ensure they are relevant to the current project requirements."
Alternatives: "modifying guidelines" or "revising guidelines".
In addition to supporting appropriate adaptation of its own guidelines, WHO should consider adapting guidelines developed by other organizations, given the potential value of WHO endorsement and savings, if high quality guidelines already exist.
This may be partly explained by the popular principle of adopting and adapting Guidelines from other countries.
Participants also talked about adapting guidelines from other hospitals or organisations for use in their own settings.
WHO has ample experience in adapting guidelines but this effort should be coordinated and disseminated among WHO guideline groups.
This paper thus aims to enrich the existing literature on adapting guidelines for implementation in resource poor settings.
Since then, the importance of adapting guidelines to the local context and identifying barriers to change has been recognized [ 17].
It has been suggested that implementation of the guideline may be enhanced by adapting guideline recommendations into a stepped-care plus treatment-matching model; however, this model has yet to be tested.
The adapted guidelines provide information and resources relevant to young people living in the U.S., including national phone and text helplines.
This model was successfully used to adapt guidelines for the continuing care of patients with diabetes mellitus that were subsequently implemented electronically with broad support of the primary care clinicians using them.
The much higher proportion (72%) of non-physicians using guidelines could be partly explained by the fact that the manual physiotherapists have developed their own guidelines [36] and that sub-specialists may be more familiar with their own adapted guidelines than with general guidelines on the same topic [26].
There is, however, a growing interest in considerations of how to adapt guidelines [ 17- 22].
