Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ

Clinical Guidelines and Patient & Family Guidelines

Clinical Guidelines

• Evidence-based statements of how to prevent, detect, or treat a specific health condition taking into account the preferences of the patient and his or her family.

Patient & Family Guidelines

• The same clinical guidelines developed for health care providers, supplemented by definitions and descriptions of medical terms that are often unfamiliar to people who are not health care... (rest of text is cut off)