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Implementing Clinical Guidelines

How Can Informatics Help?

Affiliation of the authors: Royal College of Nursing, London, England.

Correspondence and reprints: Lesley Duff, MA, Research and Development Officer, Dynamic Quality Improvement Programme, Royal College of Nursing, 20 Cavendish Square, London W1M 0AB, England. e-mail: <lesley.duff{at}rcn.org.uk>.

Abstract Clinical guidelines are heralded as a positive contribution to improving quality of care and ensuring the effectiveness of care. From the perspective of the health services researcher, the authors propose a model of how informatics can support the implementation of clinical guidelines and their integration into systems for decision support and clinical audit. Each element of the model is discussed in turn.

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