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Review
The NICE guidelines in the real world: a practical perspective
  1. J Dunning,
  2. F Lecky
  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK
  1. Correspondence to:
 Mr J Dunning
 Department of Emergency Medicine, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 3BW, UK; joeldunningdoctors.org.uk

Abstract

This review examines the derivation of the NICE guidelines and discusses some of the problems of putting research into practice.

  • craniocerebral trauma
  • evidence based medicine
  • guidelines

https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.2004.014944

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    Footnotes

    • Funding: none.

    • Competing interests: Joel Dunning was employed for six months full time as a systematic reviewer at the National Collaborative Centre for acute care, performing the systematic review for the NICE guidelines for head injury: assessment, investigation and early management of head injury in children and adults, and assisted the guideline development group in the writing of these guidelines.