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Effectiveness of guideline dissemination and implementation strategies on health care professionals’ behaviour and patient outcomes in the cancer care context: a systematic review protocol

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Title
Effectiveness of guideline dissemination and implementation strategies on health care professionals’ behaviour and patient outcomes in the cancer care context: a systematic review protocol
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Systematic Reviews, August 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13643-015-0100-9
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Jennifer R. Tomasone, Rushil Chaudhary, Melissa C. Brouwers

Abstract

Health care professionals (HCPs) are able to make effective decisions regarding patient care through the use of systematically developed clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). These recommendations are especially important in a cancer health care context as patients are exposed to a multitude of interdisciplinary HCPs offering high-quality care throughout diagnosis, treatment, survivorship and palliative care. Although a large number of CPGs targeted towards cancer are widely disseminated, it is unknown whether implementation strategies targeting the use of these guidelines are effective in effecting HCP behaviour and patient outcomes in the cancer care context. The purpose of this systematic review will be to determine the effectiveness of different CPG dissemination and implementation interventions on HCPs' behaviour and patient outcomes in the cancer health care context. Five electronic databases (CINAHL, the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, MEDLINE via Ovid, EMBASE via Ovid and PsycINFO via Ovid) will be searched to include all studies examining the dissemination and/or implementation of CPGs in a cancer care setting targeting all HCPs. CPG implementation strategies will be included if the CPGs were systematically developed (e.g. literature review/evidence-informed, expert panel, evidence appraisal). The studies will be limited to randomized controlled trials, controlled clinical trials and quasi-experimental (interrupted time series, controlled before-and-after designs) studies. Two independent reviewers will assess articles for eligibility, data extraction and quality appraisal. The aim of this review is to inform cancer care health care professionals and policymakers about evidence-based implementation strategies that will allow for effective use of CPGs. PROSPERO CRD42015019331.

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Country Count As %
Peru 1 2%
Canada 1 2%
Unknown 50 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 9 17%
Other 6 12%
Researcher 6 12%
Student > Postgraduate 6 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 8%
Other 15 29%
Unknown 6 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 19 37%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 13%
Social Sciences 5 10%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 2%
Other 5 10%
Unknown 12 23%
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