What is it about?
This article is about a modified approach for using the well-known methods for clinical practice guidelines adaptation (i.e. The ADAPTE Methods for guideline adaptation). It includes some new and some modified tools proposed for the next update of the ADAPTE Resource toolkit. This 'Adapted ADAPTE' approach was used in the Faculty of Medicine and the University Hospitals of the University of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt.
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Why is it important?
It is important because it provides new and modified tools that could support the users of the ADAPTE methods (i.e. clinical guideline adaptation working groups), these groups could be either part of a wider healthcare quality improvement initiative, medical education initiative, and/ or research project. The setting that was in one of the oldest Universities and cities of Egypt (University of Alexandria) represent a proposed model that could be considered for implementation to support evidence-based clinical practice guideline adaptation programs in countries of similar resources in the region. This program resulted in the completion of more than 10 CPG adaptation projects with others in progress.
Perspectives
I was honoured to be part of this practical experience of clinical guideline adaptation from the beginning in 2008 as a founding member of the ALEXANDRIA CENTER FOR EVIDENCE-BASED CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES (CEBCPGs) at the Healthcare Quality Directorate of the Alexandria University Hospitals and Alexandria Faculty of Medicine. This was probably up to our knowledge the first-of-its-kind CPG adaptation program in Egypt back then. Thanks to the inspiring vision of the founder Professor Dr. Mahmoud El-Zalabany and the lasting and invaluable contribution of all the founding members including Professor Dr. Tarek Omar, Professor Dr. Afaf Ibrahim, and Professor Dr. Nabil Dowidar. Also, the participation of Dr. Hossam Ashour and Dr. Ahmed Mourady in the early planning for the center.
Dr YASSER SAMI AMER
Alexandria University
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This page is a summary of: The ‘Adapted ADAPTE’: an approach to improve utilization of the ADAPTE guideline adaptation resource toolkit in the Alexandria Center for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, December 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jep.12479.
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Resources
P002 A Summary of the Methods That the Alexandria Centre for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines (CEBCPGs) uses to produce Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Healthcare Quality Directorate of Alexandria University Hospitals and Healthcare Sector
A Poster presented in the 2013 San Francisco Conference of the Guidelines International Network and was also presented during the Adaptation Working Group Meeting during the same conference. The abstract was published in the BMJ Quality and Safety. # P002 BMJ Qual Saf 2013;22:43 doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2013-002293.125 http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/22/Suppl_1/43.1
Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) Adaptation & Implementation in Hospitals of Two Universities in MENA: From Alexandria University Hospitals in Egypt to King Saud University Medical City in Saudi Arabia
Overview of Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines Initiatives in the Hospitals of Two Universities in the Middle East and North Africa Countries: Alexandria University Faculty of Medicine and University Hospitals and King Saud University College of Medicine and Medical City. See Slides # 7 - 31 (Alexandria University CPG Adaptation experience)
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