Guías de Práctica Clínica Basadas en Evidencia, cerrando la brecha entre el conocimiento científico y la toma de decisiones clínicas. Documento de la serie MBE, 3 de 3

Abstract

Introduction

Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) contain recommendations to assist practitioners, patients and other health professionals in their clinical decisions in order to achieve better healthcare.

Material and methods

Narrative review. The purpose of this work is to describe the CPGs fundamentals and the steps to develop them.

Results

CPGs contain recommendations result of a systematic work of a development group integrated by clinical and methodological experts, stakeholder and patients representatives. The protocol includes the scope, a list of clinical structured questions and systematic reviews to find, assess and extract evidence. An expert consensus panel methodology is also considered in order to integrated expertise to the existent scientific evidence.

Conclusion

CPGs aim is to bridge the gap between scientific evidence and clinical decision-making through clinical recommendations systematically developed. This is the third document of a series of literature review that has been written to aware about the value of CPGs and the importance that clinical oncologists and researchers adopt and develop such documents in our country and worldwide.