Insights about the process and impact of implementing nursing guidelines on delivery of care in hospitals and community settings

Abstract

BackgroundLittle is known about the impact of implementing nursing-oriented best practice guidelines on the delivery of patient care in either hospital or community settings.MethodsA naturalistic study with a prospective, before and after design documented the implementation of six newly developed nursing best practice guidelines (asthma, breastfeeding, delirium-dementia-depression (DDD), foot complications in diabetes, smoking cessation and …

Authors

Davies B; Edwards N; Ploeg J; Virani T

Journal

BMC Health Services Research, Vol. 8, No. 1,

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

12 2008

DOI

10.1186/1472-6963-8-29

ISSN

1472-6963

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Jenny Ploeg

Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Health Sciences

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