Adopting Clinical Practice Guidelines for Pharmacologic Management of Acute Spinal Cord Injury from a Developed World Context to a Developing Global Region

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BACKGROUND: Proper utilization of high-quality clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) eliminates the dependence of patients' outcomes on the ability and knowledge of "individual" health care providers and reduces unwarranted variation in care. The aim of this study was to adapt/adopt two CPGs for pharmacologic management of acute spinal cord injury (SCI) using guideline adaptation methods.

METHODS: This study was conducted based on the ADAPTE process. Following establishment of an organizing committee and choosing the health topics, we appraised the quality of the CPGs using the Appraisal of Clinical Guidelines for Research & Evaluation II (AGREE II). Then, the authors extracted and categorized suggestions according to Population, Intervention, Professions, Outcomes and Health care setting (PIPOH). The decision-making process was based on systemic evaluation of each suggestion, utilizing a combination of AGREE II scores, the quality of supporting evidence for or against each suggestion and the triad of feasibility, acceptance and adoptability for the Iranian health-care context.

RESULTS: Two guidelines were included in the adaptation process. Based on high-quality of these guidelines and the feasibility and adoptability evaluation of the organizing committee, we decided to adopt the suggestion of both guidelines. Overall, seven suggestions were extracted from the source guidelines.

CONCLUSION: This work provides a framework to apply guidelines for acute SCI to the developing regions of the world. Attempts should be made to implement these suggestions in order to improve the health outcomes of Iranian SCI patients.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:25

Enthalten in:

Archives of Iranian medicine - 25(2022), 6 vom: 01. Juni, Seite 353-359

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jazayeri, Seyed Behnam [VerfasserIn]
Maroufi, Seyed Farzad [VerfasserIn]
Ghodsi, Zahra [VerfasserIn]
Ghawami, Heshmatollah [VerfasserIn]
Pourrashidi, Ahmad [VerfasserIn]
Amirjamshidi, Abbas [VerfasserIn]
Mojtahedzadeh, Mojtaba [VerfasserIn]
Arabkheradmand, Jalil [VerfasserIn]
Farahbakhsh, Farzin [VerfasserIn]
Shabany, Maryam [VerfasserIn]
Faghih-Jouibari, Morteza [VerfasserIn]
Fehlings, Michael G [VerfasserIn]
Kwon, Brian K [VerfasserIn]
Harrop, James S [VerfasserIn]
Rahimi-Movaghar, Vafa [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Clinical practice guideline
Journal Article
Pharmacologic management
Spinal cord injury

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Date Completed 10.08.2022

Date Revised 15.08.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.34172/aim.2022.58

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM344624307