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Pediatricians' Awareness of and Attitudes About Four Clinical Practice Guidelines

The increasing complexity of medical care and a desire to increase quality and control costs have led to growing use of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). It is unclear how helpful these guidelines are to the practitioners expected to use them. We surveyed pediatricians about their knowledge and i...

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description The increasing complexity of medical care and a desire to increase quality and control costs have led to growing use of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). It is unclear how helpful these guidelines are to the practitioners expected to use them. We surveyed pediatricians about their knowledge and impressions of four well-publicized CPGs: the American Academy of Pediatrics' "Practice Parameter for Hyperbilirubinemia in Newborns" (hyperbilirubinemia), "A Guideline for the Management of Febrile Infants" (fever), the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research's "Guideline for Otitis Media With Effusion" (otitis), and the US Preventive Services Task Force Guide to Clinical Preventive Services (preventive care). 1) What percentage of practicing pediatricians are aware of these guidelines? 2) How helpful do they find them? 3) What are practitioners' perceived limitations of these guidelines? 4) Have these guidelines affected provider behavior? 5) Are there features of a provider's training or practice that are associated with changing practice as a result of guidelines? A national survey of 600 pediatricians selected at random from the American Medical Association master file. A total of 300 of 555 eligible participants (54%) returned surveys. Of the respondents, 66% were aware of the hyperbilirubinemia guideline, 64% of the fever guideline, 50% of the otitis guideline, but only 16% knew of the preventive care guidelines. Mean helpfulness scores (1 to 10 scale, where 1 = "not at all helpful" and 10 = "extremely helpful") ranged from 3.67 to 6.67 for the different guidelines. In terms of limitations, 15% to 33% of respondents reported that CPGs were "too cookbook," 6% to 19% reported that they were "too time-consuming," and 4% to 16% reported that they were "too cumbersome." Additional reported limitations were believing that a guideline left no room for personal experience and judgment, concern of increased liability risk, and poor parental acceptance of CPG recommendations. The proportions reporting change in management as a result of a CPG were 28% for the hyperbilirubinemia guideline, 36% for the fever guideline, 19% for the preventive care guidelines, and 28% for the otitis guideline. Mean helpfulness scores reported by nonuniversity-affiliated physicians were significantly higher than those reported by university-affiliated physicians. In a regression model of respondents aware of a particular guideline, more recent graduation from medical school and increa
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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
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Teaching. Deontology. Ethics. Legislation
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