LCGuides: Clinical Practice Guidelines: Getting Started

What are Clinical practice Guidelines?

Formal statement about defined tasks or functions in clinical practice, such as desirable diagnostic tests or the optimal treatment regimens for specific diagnoses; generally based on best available evidence.

Stedman, Thomas Lathrop, 1853-1938. (2008). Stedman's medical dictionary (6th ed., pp. 321). Philadelphia, P.A.:Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Qatar National Clinical Guidelines
National Clinical Guidelines are developed and introduced to help standardize; whenever possible, the management and treatment of patients across the Qatari healthcare system, whilst simultaneously optimising both outcome and resource utilisation.