The purpose of this study was to determine if educational intervention with medical providers in combination with a management tool to facilitate clinical guideline usage would (a) increase quality of care, (b) increase compliance with published guidelines, and (c) decrease hospital readmissions as a result of hyperbilirubinemia in the first week of life.
The users indicated that this rigidity makes guideline usage inefficient and time consuming.
Both argumentations can provide explanations for the positive results found by studies implementing additional guideline usage by general practitioners.
Overall, the responses suggested that adding a summary booklet, providing teaching sessions, and improving guidance delivery systems could be effective tools for increasing depression guideline usage.
Respondents attributed the clarity of scope, purpose and concepts as important for encouraging target user's motivation, understanding and future accuracy in guideline usage.
Thus, while our findings cannot necessarily demonstrate the patterns of, and motivation for, guideline usage (or non-usage) amongst all GPs in England, they can inform and influence the format and content of new guidelines.
Several basic features (e.g. the purpose of guidelines, resource implications, clarity of recommendations) have been shown to play an important role in guideline usage [ 3, 22], which suggests that the development phase offers great opportunities to improve the implementation of guidelines.
One way to use antibiotics more accurately is to have guidelines for usage that have been adapted to local microbiologic patterns, recognizing that each intensive care unit has its own unique patterns of antibiotic resistance [ 8].
Various types of phase change material (PCM) products are available but under the current fire safety guidelines their usage may be restricted due to their flammability, as is the case for some insulation materials.
Animals were specific pathogen free, and kept with free access to food and water in the animal care facility at the National University of Singapore under the institutional guidelines for usage of experimental animals under protocol 078-06.
