Brazilian guidelines in critical care: let's face this challenge... - Critical Care Science (CCS)

Brazilian guidelines in critical care: let’s face this challenge… |

Clinical practice guidelines are useful tools to improve delivery of the best care, based on the best available evidence, for our patients. They help practitioners to make clinical decisions and might help to ensure the proper allocation of resources in public health policy.⁽⁾ Therefore, health care guidelines and their appropriate implementation are of interest to national organizations, professional societies, health care providers, policy-makers, patients, and the public.⁽⁾

Guidelines must be grounded on the evidence-based medicine paradigm, which is comprised of four fundamental aspects: recognition of the patient's problem and the construction of a structured clinical question, effective and extensive search of the medical literature to obtain the best available evidence, critical appraisal of the evidence, and, finally, integration of the evidence in patient decision making to determine the best clinical care for the patient.⁽⁾

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