Table 2 Implementation activities
Type of activity | Activity | Exemplary quotes |
|---|---|---|
Making guidelines available for users to acquire them | Journals | · Not only in our journal but we’ll try to get it into up to six other professional journals depending on the discipline (06) |
· All of the guidelines are streamlined for peer review publication (12) | ||
· We produce articles in medical journals (15) | ||
· We will get it published in a peer reviewed journal as a supplement or summary of the guideline (21) | ||
Web site | · We post guidelines on our web site (08) | |
· The main strategy is our web site (24) | ||
· We make them available on the Guidelines International Network web site (01) | ||
· We also submit our guidelines to the Guideline Clearinghouse and the Guidelines International Network (21) | ||
Alerts | Communicated to members | · The bi-annual newsletter includes a page on guidelines (08) |
· We’ve got a newsletter that we circulate quarterly (20) | ||
Communicated via media | · We do media launches at medical conference (20) | |
· Media releases to the medical press (21) | ||
· Mass media campaign (22) | ||
Distributing guidelines or guideline alerts | Regular mail | · We make about 20,000 copies of our documents and they’re distributed nationally (10) |
· Mailings whenever they’re revised (11) | ||
· A paper based format is sent out (17) | ||
Electronic mail | · We send email to our membership (05) | |
· We will disseminate an electronic version as widely as possible using extensive email networks (21) | ||
Active promotion and support of guideline use | Educational meetings | · Case-based workshops at our annual meeting (06) |
· We do a lot of workshops (09) | ||
· Rounds are telecast across the region (13) | ||
· We host an annual implementation conference where people talk about what they have done and share good ideas and practices (15) | ||
· Regional and national presentations (26) | ||
Educational courses | · We set up an online course where clinicians can compare their practice to the guidelines (07) | |
· Our web modules include text, videos, and self audit questions (24) | ||
· We offer short learning courses online that introduce a topic along with multiple choice questions (25) | ||
Individualized instruction | · Academic detailing (05) | |
· Staff meet with care providers to educate them about guidelines (13) | ||
Champions or mentors | · We have champions in the community (10) | |
· We identify champions in each area (15) | ||
· We have a network of physician champions (17) | ||
Partnerships for advocacy or accountability | · We worked with hospitals to become an accredited centres of excellence (01) | |
· There’s an advocacy side working with government (10) | ||
· We have expanded programs through the Ministry of Health (17) | ||
· We work with professional colleges (25) |