Medical recommendations are presented as written to help the practitioner if the patient to choose the treatment most appropriate to a given clinical situation. Tool decision support these recommendations are also frame work practices to reduce their heterogeneity. If the effects of these repositories are very difficult to assess, they rely heavily on their appropriation by doctors.
- Medical recommendations: a useful tool to change the practices of health professionals?
To be an effective vehicle for changing professional practice recommendations would benefit the one hand, to better reconcile the objectives of the various stakeholders (health professionals, health insurance and users), to satisfy the requirements both in terms of scientific rigor than actual use. This could lead to a new generation of recommendations that would incorporate, from the production phase, the aim of implementation.
Recommendations could, on the other hand, combined with better incentives. Develop working tools incorporating the recommendations - as some software for example - encourage professionals to develop a critical eye on their practices make it through their collective exercise or involve more users appear as levers potentially effective actions to improve the quality of care.
Summary
- Recommendations scientifically rigorous, but often difficult to implement
- Rethinking the recommendation to combine scientific rigor and ease of use
- Combining incentives towards health professionals
- Author: Virginie Gimbert, Social Issues Department.
Tags: recommendations, physicians, patients, quality of care, decision support.