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Hi, I wanted to pick some brains.... The New Zealand Ministry of Health has put out a tender to implement guidelines on the assessment of suicidal patients in Emergency Departments and Acute mental Health settings. This seems to me an opportunity to test some hypotheses about what works and what doesn't when implementing guidelines - the way the tender is written it could even be used to fund an RCT. I am not up to speed with the "how to implement guidelines" literature - has anyone any suggestions about what would be the top two hypotheses to test or could direct me to relevant literature on "what we think works when implementing guidelines"? If anyone is interested the guidelines can viewed at www.nzgg.org.nz Cheers Simon Dr. Simon Hatcher Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry University of Auckland