Indeed, when we developed the chemotherapy guideline, an external evaluation was performed using the Japanese version of AGREE [ 37], the volume of the guideline and applicability to the local context persuaded us to revise the guideline draft [ 38].
That guidelines do in fact provide little guidance on the treatment of patients with comorbidities was confirmed in several studies [[ 26], Lugtenberg M, Burgers JS, Clancy C, Westert GP, Schneider EC: Current guidelines have limited applicability to patients with comorbid conditions: a systematic analysis of evidence-based guidelines, submitted].
Similar to prior reviews of guidelines, applicability and editorial independence domains scored the lowest [ 31, 32].
Significant improvements (p < .05) were found in knowledge, self-efficacy, motivation to use the guideline and its applicability to individual patients.
Ameliorating health insurance disparities, and improving guidelines to enhance their applicability to uninsured, referral-deprived, and non-white/non-male patients are one step toward accomplishing an egalitarian distribution of services for ADHD in children.
Two reporting guidelines were added for applicability to studies involving Hispanic or Latino populations ("Provision of instructions for device wear in Spanish") and studies using pedometers ("Total step counts").
Cabana notes attitude-related barriers, including general guideline disagreement, lack of applicability to certain clinicians, conflicting information among different sets of guidelines, lack of outcome expectancy, and inertia of previous practice [ 18].
All these issues will be guideline specific and we therefore believe that the results of randomized implementation trials will have a limited applicability to future guidelines in other specialties and other countries.
(2) and, as so redesignated, struck out applicability to rules, guidelines, interpretations, or orders.
