Evidence-Based Guidelines Assisted Creation through Interactive Online Environment

Abstract

In accordance with national and international trend in creating the equitable, efficient and cost effective health care systems and with the Romanian healthcare reform, a tool for assisting creation of guideline models and evidence-based guidelines was developed and assessed by implementation of an evidence-based standardized guideline model. By the use of the MySQL and PHP features, an original evidence-based guideline developed methodology was implemented into the Guideline(online) system. The application is hosted on AcademicDirect domain and is accessible at the following address: http://vl.academicdirect.org/medical_informatics/guidelines. The GUIDELINE (online) opens the pathway through creation of standardized guideline models and clinical practice guideline in native language.