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GUIDELINES – USAGE, FREQUENCY & VALUE
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KEY TAKEAWAYS
Referencing Clinical Practice Guidelines by Use Case
• Decision-support at point of care was the most frequent use case for
clinical practice guidelines.
• Quick refresher outside point of care was the use case the greatest
number of clinicians reported, though not the most frequent.
• Roughly 1/5 of clinicians use guidelines for coding, billing, or
documentation every single day, while over a quarter have never
used guidelines for this use case, making this the most surprising and
polarizing use case.
• CME was the least frequent and least common use case for clinical
practice guidelines, and nearly 40% of clinicians have not used guidelines
(knowingly) for CME.
