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Hi Craig and list members,

I'm working at Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne on a project called Health for Kids in the South East  - part of which is the development of evidence-based guidelines for asthma, bronchiolitis, croup and gastro in children.

Along with the full guidelines, we also create 1-page algorithms for use in-hospital and by GPs, as well as in-hospital clinical paths which form the medical record for patients, and are designed to implement the guideline recommendations.  These additional documents are directly based on the guidelines themselves, and are developed by a multidisciplinary group including a wide range of clinicians and also consumers. We follow a process which is based on those used and recommended by the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network, the National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia) and the New Zealand Guideline Group.

You can see examples of our asthma materials at http://www.med.monash.edu.au/healthservices/hfk/guidelines.html

I'm not sure what information you are after, but if we can be of any assistance we're happy to help,

Tari


Craig Lockwood wrote:
[log in to unmask]"> Systematic reviews into algorithms or decision trees Dear List members,
 I am looking to scope the international perspective on taking systematic reviews of clinical effectiveness, or evidence based guidelines and developing algorithms, or decision trees from them. Is this currently being done anywhere, or is there any discussion/debate that you are aware of? The particular focus of my interest is in taking complex documents like systematic reviews and developing simplified pathways to facilitate implementation, or informed decision making. In doing so, I fully intend that the algorithm/tree/flow chart link back to the primary source. There may be some additional issues/concerns/questions the list may like to raise. I would be interested to hear  a range of viewpoints.

I am starting a review of international evidence-based organisations web sites, and a Cochrane/Medline search today but am keen to hear from others who may have been down this path before.

 Regards
 Craig (Australia)

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Tari Turner

Tari Turner

Research Officer
Centre for Clinical Effectiveness
Monash Institute of Health Services Research
Level 1 Block E
Monash Medical Centre
Clayton Victoria 3168 Australia

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