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Practice guidelines and quality: Is there a connection?
Author(s) -
Ostenberg Paul R.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
special care in dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.328
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1754-4505
pISSN - 0275-1879
DOI - 10.1111/j.1754-4505.1996.tb00850.x
Subject(s) - quality (philosophy) , medicine , guideline , perspective (graphical) , connection (principal bundle) , task (project management) , subject (documents) , focus (optics) , clinical practice , management science , epistemology , computer science , nursing , artificial intelligence , pathology , management , world wide web , philosophy , physics , structural engineering , optics , engineering , economics
Yes! Practice guidelines are clearly connected to quality. To characterize that connection adequately, however, is a more formidable task and is the subject of this paper. This paper will capture, in a few words, the essence of my perspective and experience related to quality issues and then attempt to establish a connection between practice guidelines and quality from two perspectives: first, by suggesting a series of assumptions that would lead to a decision on what should be the focus of an appropriate guideline for an older adult, since there are many possibilities and agreeing on assumptions is a logical first step; and second, by suggesting a framework for the content of such guidelines.