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Purpose of the Guideline Toolkit

The Guideline Toolkit provides a free comprehensive guideline resource which draws on the available and current up-to-date leading benchmark literature pertaining to clinical guidelines. The toolkit describes how to search for guidelines, how to develop guideline questions, and how to adopt, adapt or conceptualize existing clinical guidelines.

The toolkit has a focus on providing training for low-middle income settings where it is often impossible or not feasible to develop De Novo clinical guidelines. De Novo guidelines are advised where there are no current guidelines available to answer the required research questions. However, in instances where there are up to date, high quality guidelines available, researchers should consider adapting, adopting or conceptualizing and existing guidelines. The considerations and procedures on deciding when to do what are described in a sequential step-wise process to ease reasoning and information flow.

Target audience for the Guideline Toolkit

This resource is targeted at clinicians who are interested in guideline development or serve on guideline development panels or methodologists who provide input and leadership in the development of clinical guidelines. The resource can also be used as adjunct to teaching clinical guidelines.

Project SAGE

Project SAGE is an innovative partnership which aims to enhance the quality of primary health care by engaging in a stakeholder-driven process to improve the standards of local clinical guideline development, adaptation, contextualisation and ultimately implementation.

Project SAGE: has been made possible as a result of a three year (2014-2016) Flagship Grant from the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC).

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Partners

Cochrane South Africa, at the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)

Cochrane South Africa situated at the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) is part of the international Cochrane Collaboration a non-profit organisation operating worldwide, which disseminates up-to-date reviews on the effects of healthcare interventions in order to ensure health care decision-making within Africa will be informed by high quality, timely and relevant research evidence.

South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) Health Systems Research Unit (HSRU)

The main purpose of the Health Systems Research Unit (HSRU) is to conduct health systems research to develop and improve the organisation, efficiency, effectiveness and impact of health systems on population health. The unit is at the forefront of conducting both qualitative and quantitative health systems research in South Africa and across the continent.

Centre for Evidence-Based Health Care (CEBHC) and Physiotherapy Division at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University

The Centre for Evidence-based Health Care (CEBHC) is a coordinating and directive institution for research and training at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of Stellenbosch University in the field of evidence-based health care. Core activities of the CEBHC include research, teaching and knowledge translation. The CEBHC has a dedicated Biostatistics Unit.

International Centre for Allied Health Evidence (iCAHE), University of South Australia

Established in 2002, the International Centre for Allied Health Evidence (iCAHE) is located at the University of South Australia and is a Member of the Sansom Institute. iCAHE works locally, nationally and internationally to achieve its mission. iCAHE’s research teams conduct qualitative and quantitative primary and secondary allied health research and iCAHE researchers inform and deliver evidence-based practice in all allied health undergraduate, postgraduate and continuous professional development programmes.

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