Medical Guideline

A Medical Guideline is a Document that contains criteria and guidelines for regarding medical diagnosis, clinical trial management, and treatment in healthcare specific areas.

• AKA: Clinical Guideline, Standard Treatment Guideline, Clinical Practice Guideline.
• Context:
  • It is based on evidence-based medicine and clinical best-practice principles.
• Example(s):
  • Medical Treatment Guideline,
  • Disease Screening Guideline,
  • Good clinical practice guidelines such as:
    • ICH GCP Guidance [1],
    • WHO GCP Handbook [2],
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Guidelines for Examination in the European Patent Office,
  • Medical Malpractice,
  • Publicly Available Specification,
  • Programming Style Guidelines.
• See: Clinical Trial, Clinical Research, Good Clinical Practice, World Health Organization, History of Medicine, Guidelines International Network.

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References

2021a

• (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_guideline Retrieved:2021-11-19.
  • A medical guideline (also called a clinical guideline, standard treatment guideline, or clinical practice line) is a document with the aim of guiding decisions and criteria regarding diagnosis, management, and treatment in specific areas of healthcare. Such documents have been in use for thousands of years during the entire history of medicine. However, in contrast to previous approaches, which were often based on tradition or authority, modern medical guidelines are based on an examination of current evidence within the paradigm of evidence-based medicine. They usually include summarized consensus statements on best practice in healthcare. A healthcare provider is obliged to know the medical guidelines of his or her profession, and has to decide whether to follow the recommendations of a guideline for an individual treatment.

2021b

• (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_clinical_research Retrieved:2021-11-20.
  • QUOTE: Clinical practice guidelines
    • Guidelines developed to help health care professionals and patients make decisions about screening, prevention, or treatment of a specific health condition. (NCI)

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