Conference paper
GUIDELINES IN PSYCHIATRY
Mark Agius
; South Essex Partnership University Foundation NHS Trust, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, UK
Abstract
Introduction: Guidelines are important to the effective implementation of modern psychiatry.
Method: Review Article, using various sources.
Results: The writer’s own experience of drafting guidelines is drawn upon, while pubmed articles have been searched on how to
implement guidelines.
Discussion: The utility of guidelines are discussed and the relationship of guidelines to audit is explained.
Conclusion: Guidelines need to be effectively researched in order to have credibility; they need to be properly implemented in
order to achieve desired improvement in practice and their implementation needs to be audited.
Keywords
guidelines; implementation; audit
Hrčak ID:
262370
URI
Publication date:
14.9.2010.
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