A wide range of preventive and clinical interventions targeting the population and patients at risk are recommended in prevailing practice guidelines, emphasizing comprehensive cardiovascular risk management (CVRM), life style changes, and preventive drug therapy [ 3].
Alignment of new innovations with prevailing practices in health system elements is important because it reduces possible conflicts which can either delay or distort the integration process.
Social influence theory emphasizes the role of others in decision making about behavior, postulating that factors such as customs, habits, beliefs of peers and prevailing practices and social norms shape the change of practice [ 61].
In accordance with prevailing practice, he was appointed pope at the age of 47 by the emperor Henry III.
Another example is that although treatment protocols are standardized in most countries, in Mexico, Peru and Colombia the practices followed by the centres represented in this study may not reflect prevailing practice in other parts of those countries.
Despite prevailing practice in the United States, he says, fruitcakes often taste better when they're aged than when they're fresh.
Quality improvement interventions in antimicrobial prescribing must aim to understand prevailing practice, and the only way to do that is to engage with senior doctors from different specialties.
Disease characteristics were typical for mCRC in North America and Europe (Table 2), and patients were treated according to prevailing practice patterns (Table 1).
However, data are scarce on the burden, prevailing practice patterns and long-term health outcomes of HF patients in India.
† Not an evidence-based element of care, but endorsed in prevailing clinical practice guidelines.
