HTH RS M 775 / Health Care Guidelines Development Methods (online)

3 unit(s)

This is a distance education course offered using McMaster online Avenue to Learn. It focuses on making evidence-based health care recommendations and clinical practice guidelines. The course uses audio-visual presentations, facilitated tutorials, required readings, discussion boards and assignments to highlight the steps of the guideline development process: planning the project, choosing the panel, managing conflicts of interest, defining the scope, finding appraising and summarizing evidence, deciding on the final recommendations as well as dissemination, implementation and adaptation of guidelines. The course follows the steps of executing one full guideline recommendation and students are required to complete one recommendation with all supporting materials end-to-end.