Priority Clinical Practice Guidelines

Today the Institute of Medicine released Standards for Developing Trustworthy Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs), a consensus report that recommends eight standards to ensure the objective, transparent development of trustworthy guidelines.

To assist our users with locating trustworthy guidelines, two years ago IDIS added Descriptor 168 - Priority Clinical Practice Guideline. In order for an article to be assigned Descriptor 168, the pharmacists at IDIS make an editorial decision to select guidelines that we consider to be of high priority based on several factors, including methodology used for guideline preparation; characteristics of the health condition; potential benefits of guideline implementation; guideline recommendations are presented clearly and graded based on the evidence; and editorial independence of the developer.

Some recent guidelines that were assigned Descriptor 168 are for the following:

Diabetes - IDIS Article 650468

Food Allergy - IDIS Article 649304

Major Depressive Disorder - IDIS Article 645188

Thoracic Aortic Disease - IDIS Article 641177

Ulcerative Colitis - IDIS Article 633321