Question

4. Think of a common medical intervention for which there is likely to exist a clinical practice guideline. (20 points) a. Select an on-line resource to identify a clinical practice guideline for the intervention. b. Find one or more clinical practice guidelines that provide recommendations to guide the intervention. c. Assess how evidence-based the clinical practice guideline is.

Answer 1

Lets take labour induction as a medical intervention

A) cochrane online resource to find clinical practice guidelines.

B) clinical practice guidelines for induction of labour

the society of obstetrician and gynaecologists of canada(SOGC) has formulated clinical practice guidelines for labour induction.

The Federation of Obstetric & Gynecological Societies of India - Indian College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists 2018 guidelines

world health organisation guidelines

C) assessing how evidence based the guidelines are:

Evidence related to induction of labour at term and beyond term was extracted from one cochrane systematic review of 22 randomized controlled trials  The trials had evaluated the effect of inducing labour at 37–40 weeks, 41 completed weeks, and 42 completed weeks of gestation, and the intervention was compared with expectant management with fetal monitoring at varying intervals.