http://cre.sagepub.com/content/28/6/523.abstract
- Avril Drummond, University of Nottingham, A Floor, South Block, Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC), Nottingham NG7 2HA, UK. Email: avril.drummond@nottingham.ac.uk
Abstract
In the UK, the National Institute for
Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is responsible for producing clinical
guidance based
on sound evidence. In 2013 they produced guidance
on Stroke Rehabilitation and this editorial outlines why this is not a
useful
guide for clinicians or commissioners. Primarily
this is because NICE used inappropriate methods; the methods used are
appropriate
for evaluating drugs, but are inappropriate when
applied to any complex intervention. Moreover, the actual
recommendations
are written in clinically unhelpful language.
Future rehabilitation guidance should
include ensuring that the team responsible for the guidance are all
familiar with and
understand the biospsychosocial model of illness
and the nature of the rehabilitation process (which is not synonymous
with
therapy), setting a relevant and appropriate scope
for a guideline, agreeing to use all evidence relevant to a particular
question, and using a more appropriate way to
evaluate evidence while recognising that rehabilitation is a complex
intervention.(This is accepting failure as ok, call your doctor out that that mindset will not be tolerated).
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