Developing and implementing clinical practice guidelines.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

92 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Clinical Practice Guidelines on Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for Melanoma: A Systematic Review and Quality Appraisal Using the AGREE II Instrument.Annals of surgical oncology · 2022
   Pooled it
2. Implementation interventions to improve the management of non-specific low back pain: a systematic review.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2016
   Pooled it
3. Guidelines for therapeutic drug monitoring of vancomycin: a systematic review.PloS one · 2014
   Pooled it
4. What is the evidence for physical therapy poststroke? A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2014
   Pooled it
5. Features predicting the success of computerized decision support for prescribing: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2009
   Pooled it
6. Canadian Asthma Consensus Report, 1999. Canadian Asthma Consensus Group.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 1999
   Guideline
7. Effect of clinical guidelines in nursing, midwifery, and the therapies: a systematic review of evaluations.Quality in health care : QHC · 1998
   Pooled it
8. Implementation of the SMART MOVE intervention in primary care: a qualitative study using normalisation process theory.BMC family practice · 2018
   Trial
9. The effect of nocturnal wear of complete dentures on sleep and oral health related quality of life: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Trials · 2014
   Trial
10. The implementation of a community-based aerobic walking program for mild to moderate knee osteoarthritis (OA): a knowledge translation (KT) randomized controlled trial (RCT): Part I: The Uptake of the Ottawa Panel clinical practice guidelines (CPGs).BMC public health · 2012
    Trial
11. The Quality Initiative in Rectal Cancer (QIRC) trial: study protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial in surgery.BMC surgery · 2008
    Trial
12. Impact on hypertension control of a patient-held guideline: a randomised controlled trial.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2006
    Trial
13. Effect on the process of care of an active strategy to implement clinical guidelines on physiotherapy for low back pain: a cluster randomised controlled trial.Quality & safety in health care · 2005
    Trial
14. Practice based, longitudinal, qualitative interview study of computerised evidence based guidelines in primary care.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2003
    Trial
15. Modifying dyspepsia management in primary care: a cluster randomised controlled trial of educational outreach compared with passive guideline dissemination.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2003
    Trial
16. Effect of computerised evidence based guidelines on management of asthma and angina in adults in primary care: cluster randomised controlled trial.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2002
    Trial
17. Can small group education and peer review improve care for patients with asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?Quality in health care : QHC · 1999
    Trial
18. Changing preventive practice: a controlled trial on the effects of outreach visits to organise prevention of cardiovascular disease.Quality in health care : QHC · 1997
    Trial
19. Randomised controlled trial of reminders to enhance the impact of audit in general practice on management of patients who use benzodiazepines.Quality in health care : QHC · 1997
    Trial
20. Clinical Practice Guidelines in Surgical Malpractice Litigation: An Analysis of California Trial Court Orders.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2026
    Article

32 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

8 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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