Article Text

Download PDFPDF
Is it time for a review of the way that NICE guidelines are developed, presented and used to inform policy and practice?
  1. Catherine Lowenhoff
  1. Department of Psychology, Social Work and Public Health, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford
  1. Correspondence to Catherine Lowenhoff, Department of Psychology, Social Work and Public Health,Oxford Brookes University, Marston Rd, Oxford OX3 0FL, UK; catherine.lowenhoff-2015{at}brookes.ac.uk

Abstract

Catherine Lowenhoff emphasises the need to share the uncertainties inherent in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines with policy makers, commissioners, regulators, managers and clinicians to facilitate the paradigm shift from evidence-based practice to evidence-informed practice.

Statistics from Altmetric.com

Request Permissions

If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

Footnotes

  • Competing interests None declared.

  • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.