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<p><strong>You Are Here:</strong> <span class="crumb_link"><a href="/" class="crumb_link">AHRQ Archive Home</a> > <a href="/research/resarch.htm" class="crumb_link"><em>Research Activities</em> Archive</a> > <a href="." class="crumb_link">June 1996</a>
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<td><h1><a name="h1" id="h1"></a>Clinical Practice Guidelines </h1>
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<a name="head1"></a>
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<h2>AHCPR-sponsored guidelines help users increase quality
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and cut costs</h2>
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<p>The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research's experience with
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clinical practice guidelines has demonstrated that evidence-based
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practice recommendations can be incorporated into guidelines for
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a range of providers and programs that yield major improvements
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in outcomes and costs. As reported previously (in the <a
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href="/research/apr96/dept9.htm#head3">April 1996
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issue</a> of <em>Research Activities</em>), AHCPR is no longer
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directly
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involved in developing clinical practice guidelines. The Agency
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will focus instead on assisting private-sector groups by
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supplying them with the scientific evidence they need to develop
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their own guidelines.</p><p>
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The following examples describe how evidence-based guidelines
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developed from AHCPR's work are being used.</p>
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<li>Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration developed a
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practice guideline for treating low back pain based largely
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on AHCPR's guideline. It is expected to save the State
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nearly $100 million in a single year of workers'
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compensation direct health care costs.</li>
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<li>Kentucky now requires insurers handling workers'
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compensation claims for back injury to use the State's new
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low back pain practice parameter as the standard for
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utilization review. The parameter closely follows AHCPR's
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acute low back problems guideline.</li>
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<li>The California Division of Workers' Compensation, Colorado
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Department of Labor and Employment, Connecticut Workers'
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Compensation Commission, Montana Department of Labor and
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Industry, Oklahoma Workers' Compensation Court, Texas
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Workers' Compensation Commission, and Utah Industrial
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Commission have used or are using AHCPR's acute low back
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problems guideline to help develop their own back pain
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treatment guidelines.</li>
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<li>The Ohio Department of Human Services endorsed AHCPR's
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heart
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failure guideline and notified over 20,000 physicians
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practicing in the State of the anticipated health care
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improvements and cost savings that could result from
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following the guideline.</li>
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<li>Maryland designated AHCPR's urinary incontinence guideline
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as a standard to be followed by public and private health
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care organizations within the State.</li>
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<li>California requires that all physicians practicing in the
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State be made aware of AHCPR's acute pain management
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guideline.</li>
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<li>Texas' long-term care facility surveyors use AHCPR's
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pressure ulcer prevention and urinary incontinence
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guidelines to help identify and correct problems in the
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State's 2,378 nursing homes, personal care homes, and
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facilities for the mentally retarded.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>A growing number of employers are using AHCPR guidelines and
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consumer guides, including Bristol-Myers Squibb. At the company's
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New Brunswick, NJ, facility, AHCPR's acute low back problems
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guideline is helping physicians treat employees' low back
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problems successfully for one-fifth of the national average cost.
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Examples from other corporate users include:</p>
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<li>Employees of Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.,
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who were treated for acute low back pain according to
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recommendations in AHCPR's guideline returned to work about
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2 weeks sooner than workers treated by more traditional
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methods.</li>
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<li>Hewlett-Packard developed a company protocol for handling
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employees' back problems that closely parallels the
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recommendations in AHCPR's guideline.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Insurers also are using AHCPR's acute low back problems
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guideline. For example, the guideline has helped Houston,
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TX-based WorkCare, Inc., to curb medically unnecessary MRI scans
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and contest other claims that appear unjustified, such as overuse
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of prescription medicines.</p><p>
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Zenith Insurance Company, a Woodland Hills, CA-based insurer, has
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cut costs for back pain treatment by 65 percent, in part by
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creating treatment protocols based on AHCPR's acute low back
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problems guideline and sending the protocols to physicians who
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treat workers' compensation patients.</p>
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<p>Managed care organizations, hospitals, home health agencies, and
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nursing homes also use AHCPR's guidelines. For example:</p>
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<li>CAPP CARE, Inc., a 3.8 million-member preferred provider
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organization based in Newport Beach, CA, is developing a
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prototype software application run on a portable hand-held
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device that will allow its 110,000 physicians to quickly
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access guidelines developed by AHCPR and others and match
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the guidelines' recommendations to patients' diagnoses.</li>
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<li>Gulf Atlantic Management Group, a large Florida-based
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preferred provider network, is integrating copies of AHCPR's
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acute low back problems guideline into its manual for
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current physician providers and newly contracted PPO and HMO
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providers.</li>
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<li>AHCPR's acute pain management guideline has helped shorten
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the hospital stays of surgical patients at Memorial Medical
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Center in Modesto, CA, by an average of 3.5 days.</li>
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<li>Use of AHCPR's unstable angina guideline has helped North
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Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson reduce test costs for
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emergency room patients complaining of chest pain.</li>
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<li>Staff at the Heritage Manor Nursing Home in Chattanooga,
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TN,
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used AHCPR's pressure ulcer prevention and urinary
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incontinence guidelines to cut the number of incontinent
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residents from 52 to 18 and the number of residents with
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pressure ulcers from 14 to 5.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>AHCPR's quick reference guides for clinicians and consumer guides
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are available from AHCPR's clearinghouse. The quick reference
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guides, full clinical practice guidelines, and consumer guides
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also are available online from AHCPR's Web site. Access these
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documents by using a Web browser, specifying URL
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<a href="/clinic/">https://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/</a>, and clicking on "Clinical Practice
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Guidelines Online." A third source is the U.S. Government
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Printing Office, which sells individual copies of clinical
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practice guidelines and bulk copies of quick reference guides and
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consumer guides. For more information, call the GPO order desk at
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(202) 512-1800.</p>
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<p class="size2"><a href=".">Return to Contents</a><br />
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<a href="dept9.htm">Proceed to Next Section</a></p>
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