Clinical practice guideline recommendation summaries for pediatric oncology health care professionals: A qualitative study

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Santesso N, Beauchemin M, Robinson PD, Walsh AM, Sugalski AJ, Lo T, Dang H, Fisher BT, Grimes AC, Wrightson AR, Yu LC, Sung L, Dupuis LL. Clinical practice guideline recommendation summaries for pediatric oncology health care professionals: A qualitative study. PLoS One. 2023 Feb 21;18(2):e0281890. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0281890. PMID: 36809380; PMCID: PMC9943009.

Abstract

To develop a summary format of clinical practice guideline (CPG) recommendations to improve understandability among health care professionals. We developed a summary format based on current research and used the “Think Aloud” technique in one-on-one cognitive interviews to iteratively improve it. Interviews of health care professionals from Children’s Oncology Group-member, National Cancer Institute Community Oncology Research Program sites were conducted. After every five interviews (a round), responses were reviewed, and changes made to the format until it was well understood and no new, substantive suggestions for revision were raised. We took a directed (deductive) approach to content analysis of the interview notes to identify concerns related to recommendation summary usability, understandability, validity, applicability and visual appeal.

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