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Concise guidelines
Concise guidelines provide short guidance on the best ways to treat and manage a range of conditions and illnesses. The guidelines are short and accessible so that physicians can respond quickly to these conditions, which may be fairly common but outside their own specialist area. They are published in Clinical Medicine and are free to all to download.
What we are doing
The Concise Guideline Series are evidence-based guidelines for clinical management. These guidelines provide clear and concise recommendations for best practice, and practical tools with which to implement them. Generally, Concise Guidelines are abstracted from a longer source guideline, either published or under development, and summarise the guidance relevant to non-specialist physicians. They are often developed by specialists to provide advice to non-specialists covering topics such as the recognition or diagnosis of a condition, or the criteria for referral to a specialist or management of common problems.
Concise Guidelines are:
- for generalist physicians and trainees (eg those likely to be undertaking acute take or caring for "general medical" patients outside their main specialty)
- designed to address common problems
- designed to fill a gap in the current provision of guidelines
- developed to a specific standard in a robust, repeatable and standardised manner.
Concise Guidelines are not:
- intended to be comprehensive
- intended to replace NICE or other comprehensive guidance
- aimed at specialists
- focused on uncommon or highly specialised clinical topics.
Developing a Concise Guideline
Contact the advisor CQID@rcplondon.ac.uk in the first instance, who can advise on what will and won’t make a good Concise Guideline. It saves a lot of time and effort to make contact at an early stage. Information on methodologies for the source guideline can be found on The Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE) website.
