Videnskabelig artikel 1. JAN 2010

Guidelines; from foe to friend?

Comparative interviews with GPs in Norway and Denmark

Udgivelsens forfattere:

  • Økonomi og styring
  • Sundhed

GPs follow clinical guidelines to varying degrees across practices, regions and countries, but a review study of GPs' attitudes to guidelines found no systematic variation in attitudes between studies from different countries.

However, earlier qualitative studies on this topic are not necessarily comparable. Hence, there is a lack of empirical comparative studies of GPs' attitudes to following clinical guidelines.

In this study we reproduce a Norwegian focus group study of GPs' general attitudes to national clinical guidelines in Denmark and conduct a comparative analysis of the findings.

Comparative qualitative studies of GPs' attitudes to clinical guidelines may reveal cross-national differences relating to the varying histories of guideline development. Further studies are needed to explore this hypothesis.

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    BMC Health Services Research