Clinical guidelines: what the practitioner should know?

I.V. Andreeva, O.U. Stetsyuk, O.A. Egorova

Smolensk State Medical University, Smolensk

Clinical guidelines (CG) are documents, systematically developed to help practitioners make decisions to provide appropriate medical care in a specific clinical event. It is the CG that should serve as the main guide for each doctor in his clinical practice from January 1, 2022. In the light of the new legislation, no more than one CG can be approved and confirmed for each disease or condition in adults and children, respectively. Strengthening the CG role should be considered as a strategy aimed at improving medical care quality. CG implementation should have a positive impact on both everyday clinical practice and the procedure for evaluating the medical care quality, as well as provide a justification for economic calculations of health care costs. Also, it will allow providing all patients with an identical amount of medical care, regardless of the attending doctor and the area of residence. For doctors, CG should be a t ool to help them make decisions about patient management since an evidence-based approach provides the clinician with information about the most effective methods of diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.

Keywords: clinical guidelines, acute bacterial rhinosinusitis, amoxicillin, clavulanic acid, antibiotic therapy, antibiotic resistance

For citation: Andreeva I.V., Stetsyuk O.U., Egorova O.A. Clinical guidelines: what the practitioner should know?. RMJ. 2020;5:21–25.