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Clinical practice guidelines: on what evidence is our clinical practice based?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Sarah Marriott  and
Claire Palmer
Sarah Marriott*
Affiliation:
College Research Unit, 11, Grosvenor Crescent, London SW1X 9PG and St Mary's Hospital London W2
Claire Palmer
Affiliation:
Clinical Practice Guideline Office, College Research Unit, 11 Grosvenor Crescent London SW1X 8PG
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

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Many sources of evidence inform clinical practice, including research findings, patients' views, and clinical experience. This article describes recent progress in developing what will be the College's first guideline, The Assessment and Management of Violence In Clinical Settings. The design of the programme acknowledges the diversity of evidence in this area, by drawing a distinction between different types of evidence. Evidence is systematically identified and its quality appraised by the Work Group, through commissioning literature reviews. Initial recommendations will be based on experimental data. The methods used to consider non-experimental data, particularly expert opinion, will be described in more detail in a later article in this series.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 20 , Issue 6 , June 1996 , pp. 363 - 366
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1996

Footnotes

1.

The Work Group members are Professor John Wing (Chair, and previously Director, College Research Unit), Dr Zerrin Atakan (Consultant Psychiatrist), Dr David Ndegwa (Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist), Dr Brian Kidd (Senior Registrar), Dr Martin Ward (Lecturer in Nursing), Dr John Deeks (Medical Statistician), Dr Brian Thomas-Peter (Clinical Forensic Psychologist), Ms Nina Rideout (Service User), Mr David Leadbetter (Approved Social Worker).

2.

The Clinical Practice Guideline Project Team includes Ms Claire Palmer (CPG Programme Facilitator), Ms Victoria Thomas (Administrator), Dr Paul Lelliott (Director, College Research Unit), and Dr Sarah Marriott (Research Fellow).

3.

The Clinical Practice Guidelines Office Team includes Ms Claire Palmer, Ms Victoria Thomas, and Dr Sarah Marriott.

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