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**APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING** Dear all, I am trying to find a copy of the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol (AEP). >From searching I can see that many Trust's in England have used it quite recently (in the last few years). Also, I can see where the tool it originated from: P.M. Gertman and J.D. Restuccia, "The Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol: A Technique for Assessing Unnecessary Days of Hospital Care," Medical Care 19 (August 1981): 855; and J.D. Restuccia, P.M. Gertman, and S.J. Dayno, "Methods to Determine Inappropriate Use of Hospital Resources: Final Report," Health Care Research Unit, Boston University Medical Center, prepared for the Health Care Financing Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, September 1982. My problem is that I can't seemed to find the actual tool as since original publication (see above), different versions of the tool have evolved, for example: Lang T, Liberati A, Tampieri A, Fellin G, Gosalves M, Lorenzo S, Pearson M, Beech R, Santos-Eggiman B, 1999, A European version of the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol, Intl J Technology Assessment in Health care, 15 185-197. Plus a French, paediatric one, etc, etc ... there is a lot of literature about it, reviews, etc on Medline ... However, I am trying to establish if 'we' as a Trust we need to purchase the tool from a learned organisation (i.e. Boston University Medical Center ... have looked already at site), or a recent UK version of the tool is 'out there' and 'freely available' for adaptation from the literature. If you have 'any' information regarding this tool, (perhaps you have worked with a team to source and use this tool), would you please contact me off the list. I will of course summarise any responses and post to list. Kind regards, Lisa Lisa Anderson BA(Hons) MA MCLIP Clinical Librarian McArdle Library Education Centre Arrowe Park Hospital Wirral Hospital NHS Trust Upton, Wirral, CH49 5PE Tel/fax: +44 151 604 7223 Email: [log in to unmask] ********************************************************************** This message may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please accept our apologies. Please do not disclose, copy or distribute information in this e-mail or take any action in reliance on its contents: to do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please inform us that this message has gone astray before deleting it. Thank you for your co-operation. NHSmail is used daily by over 100,000 staff in the NHS. Over a million messages are sent every day by the system. To find out why more and more NHS personnel are switching to this NHS Connecting for Health system please visit www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/nhsmail **********************************************************************