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Abstract
Clinical practice guidelines are ‘Statements that include recommendations intended to optimize patient’s care that is informed by a systematic review of evidence and an assessment of the benefits and harms of alternative care options’.
Searching PubMed using “clinical practice guidelines“ as keyword, the earliest indexed papers date from the beginning of the 1970’s, but the number of
papers in the field starts growing dramatically in the late 1980’s. By adding efficacy compliance” effectiveness adherence”, etc. as keywords, earliest papers date from the beginning of the 1990’s.
The health sector reform program (HSRP) aims for achieving universal coverage for the entire population by adopting the family health model as the entry point to a bio-psycho-social approach in providing comprehensive health services at the individual, family and community level.
The PHC program has been supported over the years by a series of projects aiming at improving specific components of the PHC service package and each of the projects developed its own strategies and resource material. The result was a huge amount of manuals and guidelines to be used at the PHC and for training.